On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 01:24 -0400, Kieran Smyth wrote: > Hi, > > For reasons unknown to me, synaptic uninstalled itself about three > weeks ago. I am using Buster on the desktop, with MATE as my desktop > environment. > > When i open up a terminal and try to re-install it, i get the > following- > SNIP > > I like using a GUI frontend to apt, and if anyone can help me get it > back on my system i'd really appreciate it. > > Thank you in advance for any help that may be provided. > > - Kieran
The good news is that someone has filed a patch that works around these issues with Wayland. So it should be back for other GUI users with a failure message for Wayland users once it is passed through experimental (in time for Buster release).
