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Opera Download has Broken Adept, Synaptics, etc....

Asked by relliott

No doubt this is completely my fault. I tried to download Opera and install it, though instead of saving to the desktop, I stayed with the Default Open With GDEB Package Manager. Now I am unable to sudo apt-get, use Adept, or Synaptics. Everything errors out. I'm sure this is an easy fix.

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Paolo Naldini (hattory) said : 		#1

I'm not sure to have understood the problem, but you can't use two applications that use both APT at the same time.
Therefore close Gdeb, Synaptic ecc. and try again to use sudo apt-get.

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Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#2

If this doesn't work, could you please copy and paste errors that apt-get outputs?

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relliott (robbieandjana) said : 		#3

I am sorry for not having all the information that you or anyone else would need to take care of this problem, as I am at work now. Your suggestion was the first thing I thought of, but my problem seems to be, I with my limited knowledge am unable to close GDEB. I believe that GDEB is in use and still trying to install Opera, but will not follow through on the installation because I am not signed in to it as root. I have tried to close all of the other package manager apps and use Sudo. I will try to post the error tonight.

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relliott (robbieandjana) said : 		#4

Here is an example. I tried to sudo apt-get install compiz

jana@jana-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package opera needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

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Best Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : 		#5

First, i would to:

sudo apt-get update

This would make sure your package lists are up to date, or if it fails some more insight. Then you can try:

sudo apt-get remove opera

If this fails let me know, there are ways to force it, or fix it some other way. Another possibility is that you enable commercial repository, so that opera can be found. You would add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

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relliott (robbieandjana) said : 		#6

Thank you for your help with this. I added the commercial repository and sudo apt-get installed opera, after the installation completed I was able to use adept to update my system. Thank you again, I have never had such quick and thorough responses for problems I have had with windows. I am happy to say that other than for work, every PC I use now has either Ubuntu or Kubuntu installed on it.

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relliott (robbieandjana) said : 		#7

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.