Package: synaptic Version: 0.83+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #741109 Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** 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 -- no debconf information