Not that I'm aware of as I have no thumb drives plugged in
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ sudo apt install synaptic
[sudo] password for mike:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
synaptic is already the newest version (0.84.6ubuntu5).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra gsfonts libgimp2.0 libgmic1
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libheif1 liblqr-1-0
libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libtiff-tools
pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$
I click on synaptic package manager under System and nothing
Should I use the sudo apt autoremove to remove what the command in the terminal said or is that for something else ....
This command should disable CD:Rom as a source:
sudo sed -i '/\<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
It will not print out any confirmation in terminal. I just performed it three times to be certain that it works.
reinstall:
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra gsfonts libgimp2.0 libgmic1
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libheif1 liblqr-1-0
libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libtiff-tools
pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 622 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 Index of /ubuntu focal/universe amd64 synaptic amd64 0.84.6ubuntu5 [622 kB]
Fetched 622 kB in 3s (214 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 307584 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../synaptic_0.84.6ubuntu5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking synaptic (0.84.6ubuntu5) over (0.84.6ubuntu5) ...
Setting up synaptic (0.84.6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ sudo apt install synaptic
Sorry nothing .....
Launch synaptic from terminal:
synaptic-pkexec
OR you can:
sudo -i
synaptic
Yup that worked ....
Did it relay any error messages?
Did you run:
sudo sed -i '/\<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for mike:
root@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~# synaptic
root@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~#
Nope I didn't see any
Frog
Here's the thing, your OS is screwed up. And its screwed up so bad, I don't think there is any fixing it via the standard steps.
What I think you need to do, is reinstall the OS entirely, and start over. But once you do that, I have a requests for you, and it goes as follows.
Please DO NOT remove any files from your system ever again, until you ask of first if its safe to do so. Because everytime people go on deleting essential files, they brick their OS.
Your hard drive cannot be that small. And most files within Linux are far far smaller in size then anything on Windows. Since I am no longer able to help you fix the issue, and Aravisian, who is our greatest expert on here, is having great difficulty as well.............
Which is why I recommend reinstall of the OS. But again, and I repeat, DO NOT remove files off your system ever again without consulting us first.
But what I can tell you right now without consultation, is to never remove essential library files, ever.
Interesting but everything works OK on Gnome .... including synaptic
Then you will obviously be reinstalling your DE then, Aravisian has the commands to do that, I do not. Try doing just that first, see where it goes. If it doesn't fix the issue, you will be reinstalling the entire OS as well as the DE.
When I ran that command in the terminal I got this .....
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ sudo sed -i '/<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
[sudo] password for mike:
mike@mike-ROG-Strix-G731GT-G731GT:~$ synaptic
(synaptic:17070): IBUS-WARNING **: 11:39:01.772: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused
Sorry, the Forum Software Alters Code. Needs the right tags.
Just as you see it here:
sudo sed -i '/\<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
NOT
sudo sed -i '/<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
THIS
sudo sed -i '/\<cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
Synaptic must be opened with Root Privileges:
OK here are a couple of photos of the last two commands .... next I'll try launching from terminal
Now I'll try launching synaptic in the terminal ... be right back
Why Are You Skipping The sudo -i?
That elevates to Root privileges.
You are trying to launch Synaptic without Root.
It popped up a Window Warning You Of It.
Holy freaking quacamole batman, he's done it! Thats right Robbin, he's now knee deep in Synaptic.
Ok Frog... When you removed Thunar, I think that removed some essential package that ties the app finder and Thunar into the ibus.
Please try the following in terminal. Copy and paste it over:
sudo apt install --reinstall thunar thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-places-plugin libqrencode4 libxfce4ui-utils tango-icon-theme xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-wavelan-plugin
For Clarity: the full length command is:
sudo apt install --reinstall thunar thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-places-plugin libqrencode4 libxfce4ui-utils tango-icon-theme xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpufreq-plugin xfce4-datetime-plugin xfce4-diskperf-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-sensors-plugin xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-wavelan-plugin
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