Help me control centre synaptic will not let me update or download

michelle cullum · 06-06-2019, 04:02 AM

Have had a few attemps at updating
First time i tried it i had this

Could not download all repository
indexes, The repository https:repo antix.com stretch release does not have release file
Next time i tried it did not show the reason why just updates not available
Hope you can understand this sorry am a newbie

yancek · 06-06-2019, 04:18 AM

Are you using the most recent release of AntiX?
Is this a new install and have you been able to do any updates previously?

Lysander666 · 06-06-2019, 04:32 AM

Maybe some of the sources are out of date.

Can you post the output of

Code:

inxi -r

Sources should apparently be these

https://github.com/MX-Linux/MX-18_sources

but we'll get to that.

anticapitalista · 06-06-2019, 11:04 AM

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/to...pkeysig-error/

hazel · 06-15-2019, 04:16 AM

I'm in on this now. It isn't the signature thing, it's something more fundamental. What has happened is that for some reason apt is prioritising the Debian repos over the AntiX ones. The problem affects dbus and libdbus. When you try to update them, synaptic tries to remove loads of stuff including eudev and xorg and replace them with udev and systemd!

What puzzles me even more is that my friend here doesn't know enough to mess about with her repositories, so what caused the problem?

In the mean time, here is the inxi output:

Code:

inxi -r
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

Postscript: I updated the keyring any way but it doesn't seem to have solved the problem.

anticapitalista · 06-15-2019, 08:51 AM

A systemd-free version dbus (and vlc if you use it) has been built and should appear in the repos soon.

Apt-get dist-upgrade should not uninstall anything at the moment.

Can you post the output so I can take a look, thanks.

hazel · 06-15-2019, 09:52 AM

Now here's something odd: I have AntiX on my laptop and I just did an apt-get upgrade that proceeded absolutely normally. dbus, libdbus, and dbus-x11 were included and they all updated normally from the AntiX repos. So why does it work for me and not for her?

The only difference I can see between my system and Michelle's is that I am using the UK Debian repo and she has the US one. Don't ask me why!

anticapitalista · 06-15-2019, 10:19 AM

What does apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) show on Michelle's?

hazel · 06-15-2019, 10:37 AM

When I ran apt-get upgrade for her this morning, it showed four dbus packages that "would not be upgraded", obviously because of changes in their dependencies. These were the ones that synaptic barfed on too. I didn't try a dist-upgrade but I emailed her about an hour ago asking her to do one and post back the results for you.

jazzy_mood · 06-15-2019, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lysander666

Maybe some of the sources are out of date.

Probably this. Maybe the OP needs to point their sources to the right servers and update the list of available packages?

hazel · 06-15-2019, 01:31 PM

We are going to try again together tomorrow afternoon. No point adding anything to this thread until then.

hazel · 06-16-2019, 11:02 AM

Here is the output from apt-get dist-upgrade. I aborted it because I have read that dist-upgrade acts like synaptic, deleting and installing dependencies to make everything fit and we don't want that, do we!

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dbus dbus-user-session dbus-x11 libdbus-1-3
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 577 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Hey! It suddenly works! We tried in Synaptic and it updated the non-systemd versions as asked. Now can someone please explain to the two of us what all that was about?

anticapitalista · 06-16-2019, 12:11 PM

Probably the antiX repo was down.

michelle cullum · 06-16-2019, 12:27 PM

Thank you very much for your knowledge

Ktasy · 06-17-2019, 05:21 AM

Get more from here.Thanks.