On Thursday 27 August 2015 05:25:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 27. August 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > From the synaptic history screen:
> > Commit Log for Thu Aug 27 04:44:56 2015
> >
> >
> > Upgraded the following packages:
> > tdeadmin-trinity (4:14.0.1-0debian7.0.0+0) to
> > 4:14.0.1-0debian7.0.0+0 tdegames-trinity (4:14.0.1-0debian7.0.0+0)
> > to 4:14.0.1-0debian7.0.0+0
> >
> > And if I simply hit the apply button, it will do it again and again.
> >  I nuked those two files in /var/cache/apt/archives by hand and it
> > went away.  Those were quite long filenames, and contained some odd
> > characters.  The dash is a legal char, but is the + sign? I don't
> > know.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> Could you please use "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" instead of
> synaptic?
>
> Nik

For that I expect it would work.  But it does not show me a browse able 
list of whats available.

Is there a specific reason I should abandon the use of synaptic-pkexec?

Since removing those two files as I related above, the problem has ceased 
to exist.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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