Broken/missing packages
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This isn't the first time... I have just re-installed Trisquel 5.5 on my laptop and when i tried to install some additional software from the repositories my crappy ultra-mega-slow internet connection kept failing and the result is a whole bunch of broken packages and many dependencies missing.
It isn't the first time, when installing additional packages, that if that installation is abnormally interrupted it also messes with already installed software making them "magically" disappear. Brasero, Totem, GIMP, and who knows what else (many more) simply vanished from my computer.
Now i can't install anything from the menu "Add/Remove applications" (it doesn't even start, regardless of how good the internet connection is) and the menu entry that allowed me to edit the system's settings disappeared! Also, when i try to bring synaptic's GUI up from the command-line i get this:
No protocol specified (synaptic:27837): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
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Please don't tell me i have to reinstall Trisquel for the Nth time... Is there something i can do?
Can you install the trisquel metapackage? It is a metapackage that contains all the desktop packages.
That is just what i needed! Thanks SirGrant!
did it work?
you could also use apt-get -d install (package) to make it just download required stuff. Then do the same without -d to actually install packages from harddrive.
Well, the software packages are back again and the "system settings" menu entry is back too but i still can't install software with the "Add/Remove apps" menu and i still can't make synaptic to work. Any advice on that?
[UPDATE]
Just wanted to say that i have solved my "Add/Remove apps" problem: it was totally unrelated to broken/missing packages. What happened was that i had changed my hostname with the command line and Trisquel was refusing calls to some apps thinking that those call were being made to a non-local host. More or less. Anyway, problem solved. (Silly me)
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