Package: synaptic
Version: 0.83+nmu1
Followup-For: Bug #741109
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1. Cannot access synaptic from menu
2. effective: use su terminal to access synaptic
3. and could access synaptic with #2
4. exited synaptic and message on terminal was:
Discarding 3 over 4
cannot open /etc/aptapt.conf.d/gg synaptic to write
APT::Install-Recommends
5. have always been able to access synaptic from menu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 1.3.1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3.1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-5
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1+b1
ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1
ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1
ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.1-1
ii libgnutls30 3.5.5-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
ii libpcre2-8-0 10.22-2
ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-6
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxapian30 1.4.0-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages synaptic recommends:
ii gksu 2.0.2-9
ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2499-1
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:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.49
ii deborphan 1.7.28.8-0.3
pn dwww <none>
ii menu 2.1.47
pn software-properties-gtk <none>
ii tasksel 3.36
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