Christian's very helpful fix appears to include a small error that causes Synaptic to fail on attempted startup. He writes,
> And paste > APT::Install-Recommends “true"; I think users will have better success if they instead copy and paste the following line into the 99recommends file that Christian suggests users create in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory: APT::Install-Recommends "true"; The two lines look the identical, but they're not. In the version that Christian typed, the first of the two quotation marks is some kind of non-standard character, presumably a "smart" or (same) "opening" quotation mark. When I tried to use Christian's exact line on my Hardy system I received this fatal error the next time I tried to start Synaptic: E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99recommends:2: Extra junk at end of file Replacing the non-standard quotation mark with a normal one, as was done to create the corrected APT line immediately above, solves the problem, and lets Synaptic start normally. -- Enable auto-install of packages in recommends field by default, like in aptitude https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8896 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
