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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

Hello:

Perhaps this ...

It's not nice to be mean to old cantankerous bastards ...  8^D !!!

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greenjeans

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Re: [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

@atlante I would go with what fsmithred said try. And if you get an error you can also try:

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ excalibur main non-free-firmware non-free contrib  
deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware non-free contrib 
deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ excalibur-security main non-free-firmware non-free contrib 

That deb822 crap is for the birds. More useless flailing about, much like usrmerge.

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Atlante

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Registered: 2025-05-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

Okay. What I'll do is a clean reinstall to avoid any remaining repository configuration errors, and then I'll edit the `/etc/apt/sources.list` file with nano, following Fsmithred's recommendations.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Atlante

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Registered: 2025-05-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

Congratulations! I now have Devuan 6.0 “Excalibur” fully installed and working. The last reinstallation was successful. I performed it from a new USB drive (I suspect the previous one was faulty). Thank you all sincerely.

There are two problems:

1) Every time I turn on the computer, a pop-up message appears saying: “PolicyKit Agent. GDBus.Error.org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.1.Error.Failed. An authentication agent already exists for the specified subject.”

From what I've read, it's as if more than one authentication process is running in parallel. I found some solutions, but they involve running the systemctl command, which isn't applicable to Devuan because we don't use systemd. It seems the solution would be to restart polikit.service. Perhaps with the command `reboot polikit.service`, with some parameter.

2) The CUPS printer setup wizard, in the "Troubleshooting" section, displays a blank message. I connected the printer to CUPS via the localhost 631 page, and everything worked fine until I tried to print. I then received a printing error message and had to use the printer setup wizard again.

I'm going to mark this issue as SOLVED, and I'm not sure if it's necessary to open a new thread for these two additional details.

Thanks again to everyone, and best regards.

Duke Nukem

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Registered: 2018-11-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

It's KDE bro, lol.

Some folks just want a system that's a good tool to accomplish various tasks. (that's me)

But some folks want a complete immersive cinematic-style experience with lots of animations and transitions

Discover was one of the reasons I gave up kde (ceasing to allow different backgrounds for different desktops was another). So it was a package manager? I never did find out because although it kept popping up that it had updates for me, behaving like an annoying phone app, when I tried responding to it out of exasperation nothing happened. Couldn't find a way to uninstall it either, must have been baked in.