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applications don't launch

Asked by yellowmango

I'm totally new to Linux and Ubuntu and recently installed Hardy Heron Workstation.

I had been installing updates yesterday and after a while my Synaptic Manager, the Add/Remove application, and the update manager stopped working normally. When I click on them to launch it, it seems to expand into a window, but then that window disappears.

Did I end up installing some malicious application or video codec or somehow adversely change some configurations somewhere?

Is there a way to recover the use of these applications without having to do a clean install all over again?

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please be sure your Ubuntu 8.04 is fully update and upgraded, do this check from terminal.

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all

then to reboot your pc, type:
sudo reboot

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then please tell which application isn't not running, the name.

Hope this helps

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yellowmango (yellowmango) said : 		#2

Thank you! This solved my issue. Now the update manager, synaptic manager and add/remove, all seem to be working.

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yellowmango (yellowmango) said : 		#3

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.