Known Bugs and Limitations

Table 6. Known issues and workarounds

Problem Workaround
Unsupported locale Use a locale supported by Xlib.
A failed installation blocks further operations in synaptic

Under some rare circumstances the actual installation or removal of a package can fail. As a consequence all other marked changes are canceled, too.

Synaptic Package Manager requires a clear environment with no half installed packages to perform additional changes. But at the moment there is no way to continue canceled installations within Synaptic Package Manager.

To fix this situation type the following command in a terminal, then press Return:

apt-get install -f