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Hello, everyone,--
I booted up Synaptic today in order to look for some updates (I'm in the Peace Corps, and my internet access is sporadic, at best -- it's been about a year since I was last able to use Synaptic) and saw that there are two broken packages:
libgnomeui-0
libgtk2.0-0
It gives me no other options besides marking them for removal, but when I do mark them for removal, it tells me that many other packages will also have to be removed. This list includes almost every program on the computer, but I've picked out some of the more important looking ones:
acroread
asus-eeepc-core
asus-updatepack-105
firefox
gcin
gsynaptics
...and about 30 important looking libraries.
Needless to say, I don't think I want to remove any of those things. But I do want to install new software on my computer, which Synaptic tells me I can't do until these broken packages are fixed.
My eeePC is a 4G Surf, and other than installing VLC, Opera, and an SNES emulator, I haven't really done anything unusual to it.
Does anyone have any advice? I'd appreciate any help you can give me with this problem.
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If you are online, open synaptic and choose "Edit" > "Fix Broken Packages" from the menu.
Hope that'll work.
Greetings gringo
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Have you recently run Asus update? The problem is probably with incompatibility of VLC with libgtk2.0-0.
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My advice would be to ditch Xandros entirely, and install Ubuntu. Work good, last long time. Xandros is severely limited, and Ubuntu is much, much better. Everything works out of the box, and upgrades are mostly painless. I recommend 9.04 for now, though, as 9.10 still has some teething problems.
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I think Xandros is a fine OS . . . but updates in any OS on a system with limited storage capacity should be approached cautiously. Unless you have some specific need for an update, I'd avoid it.
In your current situation, you might try opening a terminal window (ctrl-alt-t) and then typing "sudo apt-get clean" (without the quotes) followed by "sudo apt-get autoclean". That might free up some space. Then I'd leaave the Xandros system alone.
Buy a USB stick or an SD card and try some other OSes if you wish. Pupeee and Tiny Core Linux are small and useful. Knoppix 6 is also handy.
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