Package: synaptic Version: 0.83+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream After starting synaptic from a terminal (so i can see the output), after closing synaptic you get the error:
cannot open /etc/aptapt.conf.d/99synaptic to write APT::Install-Recommends Let me know if i can provide more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.15-1 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.3~rc4 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3~rc4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.21.90-2 ii libc6 2.24-2 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.34.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.49.6-1 ii libgnutls30 3.5.3-4 ii libgtk-3-0 3.21.5-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.2-1 ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-3 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.45.90-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.23-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2498-3 ii policykit-1 0.105-16 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> ii deborphan 1.7.28.8-0.3 pn dwww <none> ii menu 2.1.47 pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.35 -- no debconf information

