synaptic troubles

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: synaptic troubles
started by: bernstine

Posted by bernstine on April 04 2005,10:25

Hello all,

I am having some trouble working with synaptic. I am trying to download perl and it simply replies with "perl not installed". The synaptic message terminal says:

/usr/sbin/synaptic warning: could not open IM
/usr/sbin/synaptic warning: WINGS: could not load widget images file: could not open file

Are there additional dependies for perl or did I or synaptic do something wrong here? Thanks in advance for your time and thought.

bernie

Posted by boogaloo on April 04 2005,14:22

Wrong forum?

Posted by bernstine on April 04 2005,14:26

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I assume you guys will switch it up or remove it or something.

I totally understand.

bernie

Posted by cbagger01 on April 04 2005,16:08

I have seen this error message many times and I don't think that it is the cause of your problems.

Try installing Perl.

If it won't install, you can try pointing your /etc/apt/sources.list over to "testing" or "unstable" and then apt-get update and then try again to install Perl.

Posted by bernstine on April 05 2005,02:51

Thanks cbagger:D