[Xastir] Crash and Restore

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:34:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n2diy at losch.net> flavor, containing:
> 
> So, Synaptic, and apt-get aren't playing on the same page. Synaptic was 
> telling me things are installed ok, and apt-get is telling me a 
> different story.

Sounds like whatever database is kept to keep track of packages is 
munged.

> Now I'm not sure what to think, was it my backup/restore that munged 
> things, or did the package repos change, or both?
> 
> I'm putting this install down, and re-installing Ubuntu from scratch. 
> I'll get all of my hard drive back, clean up fstab, and start off from a 
> clean slate.

That sounds like an extreme course, but it would guarantee a clean system.

You might instead just try installing all the necessary packages with apt-get
instead of relying on synaptic, but if synaptic is so confused then perhaps
starting from a clean slate isn't crazy.

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