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SearchSubmitted by Seinfeld on Thu, 06/07/2006 - 01:58.
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Hi
I am using Debian etch (testing)..I have so many installed packages on my machine DO NOT appear as Installed or even marked as Needs Upgrade on Synaptic. For example I do have XMMS and xpdf etc.. installed, but they appear as totally uninstalled (blank mark) on synaptic. and if I mark them for install, they do install as if it is the first time. They are definitely installed for sure, I work with them all the time.
Any knowledge why my installed packages appear as if the are not installed on Synaptic.. And, if I do install them, am I duplicating something.. I really appreciate your detailed explanation..
Thanks
hmm
Well I guess Synaptic is a little bit buggy, You should try any other package manager and see if this issue disappears or not.
Regarding the duplicates thing, Dont worry .. it wont install the package twice, It just re-installs it.
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Elimination
Greetings Yousry,
I don't really know what's going on - but it's easy to eliminate synaptic out of the equation, just use apt-get directly. Try
apt-cache show pkg-name <And see if the package is installed in your database or not. If YES, then synaptic was acting stupid. If NO, then theres something really weird in Ubuntu.
I guess it's the second one. Had a similar problem with MEPIS. I think we should post in the Ubuntu forums for this one.