synaptic not opening

[pauly]

It does open in the terminal with no error messages but it will not open without the terminal.

[pauly]

will check back in the morning.

[pauly]

That was interesting. It would not open from the start menu. I had it placed in favorites. I put it there early in the set up process. I decided to remove it from favorites and then put it back. It now opens.

[oshunluvr]

Synaptic is kind of out-of-date and not a KDE program. Have you tried Muon yet?

[pauly]

Muon is too busy. I can't see what I am trying to install. Synaptic works great and looks great if you know how to set it up.

[capt-zero]

I agree, I installed 12.10 the other day and was expecting a number of changes to Muon, but it is still as clunky as ever. I've enjoyed Synaptic and use it for almost all my installs. I don't even know why they waste space on the Muon updater, it hangs up frequently and is always slower than a CLI update/upgrade. Not to mention, there is no option (that I know) for dist-upgrade in Muon.

[SteveRiley]

Not to mention, there is no option (that I know) for dist-upgrade in Muon.

So I just ran a parallel trial.

In Muon Package Manager, I clicked Check for Updates in the toolbar and waited while Muon downloaded the latest list of updates. Then I clicked Full Upgrade and saw a collection of upgradable packages.

Then I dropped to a command line and ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Saw the exact same list of packages.

If you try the same experiment, do you have different results?

[vinnywright]

So I just ran a parallel trial.

In Muon Package Manager, I clicked Check for Updates in the toolbar and waited while Muon downloaded the latest list of updates. Then I clicked Full Upgrade and saw a collection of upgradable packages.

Then I dropped to a command line and ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Saw the exact same list of packages.

If you try the same experiment, do you have different results?

nope exact same results @hear ......Muon and the CLI same list
but I must confess it's the first time I have used Muon in a wile ,,,,,,usually just do the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
every other day or so (I have the update notifier turned off )
VINNY

[capt-zero]

I have to admit, I've never done a comparison test like that. I had never seen an option in Muon to do a dist-upgrade before. I haven't used it much, just like vinny, I always use the CLI with dist-upgrade. I will say that Muon does sometimes hang up during an operation, especially large ones. I have to go back, cancel it out, then use the CLI. It did this right after this last install, just two days ago. It's always possible that I'm just a luddite at heart and like to do things the old fashioned way.

[jlittle]

My 2c on this... I have a memory-constrained system, (0.85 GiB indicated in system monitor), and Muon thumps it really hard. Maybe it's written in python... or maybe dpkg is. When muon is running, I have to avoid using firefox.