Re: Synaptic Problem

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:25:21 -0800 

Thank you for your detailed response. It is much appreciated.


On 12/23/2023 02:01 PM, Pocket wrote:

On 12/23/23 12:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:



On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote:

On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl


On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any 
problems.

Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or directory) 

So, I uninstalled the program:
Did you check the directories afterwards, removing any files you found 
related to vmware?


root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name         Product Version
==================== ====================
vmware-player        17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
     Deconfiguring...
[######################################################################] 
100%
Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#


That looks like a success ...


However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease 
Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION 
section in apt-key(8) for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an 
archive for it.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$


If you were using virtualbox before vmware, could this be left over?
Virtualbox has been removed from Debian stable versions - see
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox but I think you could pick it up from 
Oracle.

If you've nothing that depends on either particularly, I'd recommend
virt-manager and the kvm/qemu universe.

Andy



Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1
Actually, I am using the QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 10 and an very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on accessing the host and the internet from the Windows guest. I was hoping to get som insight from VMWare as to a solution.
My major problem is, because of the problem with VMWare Player, I can.t use Synaptic or apt to update and upgrade Bookworm. 



This my shed some light on the subject

Try this

dpkg --verify


for example running on my system.....
dpkg --verify
??5?????? c /etc/skel/.bashrc
??5?????? c /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
??5?????? c /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
??5?????? c /etc/systemd/logind.conf
??5?????? c /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
??5?????? c /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd
??5?????? c /etc/wayfire/greeter.ini
??5??????   /usr/share/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini
missing     /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
??5?????? c /etc/default/useradd
??5?????? c /etc/dphys-swapfile
??5?????? c /etc/login.defs
??5?????? c /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

I have spoken



   What can you tell me about this?

comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify
??5?????? c /etc/mime.types
?????????   /usr/lib/cups/backend/implicitclass
missing     /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing     /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing     /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing     /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing     /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission denied) missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied) missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied) missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied) missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied) missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/log/apt
missing     /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/libvirt-dbus.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/mimetypes
missing     /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes
missing     /var/log/runit
missing     /var/log/runit/ssh
??5?????? c /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf
missing     /var/log/apache2
??5?????? c /etc/default/ufw
missing     /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/systemd-networkd.rules (Permission denied) missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied) missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/log/speech-dispatcher
missing     /etc/apparmor.d/disable
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.gtk.vfs.file-operations.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/cache/cups/rss (Permission denied)
missing     /var/spool/cups/tmp (Permission denied)
????????? c /etc/sudoers
????????? c /etc/sudoers.d/README
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied) missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.pkla (Permission denied) 
????????? c /etc/exim4/passwd.client
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing     /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied) missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.pkla (Permission denied) 
?????????   /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf
????????? c /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
missing     /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/60-libvirt.rules (Permission denied) 
missing     /var/log/libvirt
missing     /var/log/libvirt/lxc
missing     /var/log/libvirt/qemu
????????? c /etc/default/cacerts
??5?????? c /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
?????????   /usr/lib/cockpit/cockpit-session
missing     /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules (Permission denied) 
??5??????   /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/brsanenetdevice4.cfg
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify >verifydpkg
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$
I usally run it with sudo or root, that is why you may have the permission issues above
I would rerun it with root perms, may not change anything, I don't know as I always run it with root perms.  It could be that some of the "missing with permission denied" will go away.
The missing are files that should be there according to a package on the system but are no longer on your system ie missing/no existent.
the ones with the 'c' are files that have been changed/edited since they were install.
This one '??5??????' I forget what it is telling you, i would have to look that up.
What the command that I suggested to you does is to read all the information about all the packages on your system and it then does a md5sum on the installed files and compares them to what was in the package when is was installed, by giving it a package name it will only look at just that package. The command above is look at everything.
In a perfect world it should not come back with anything, in the real world you will have some differences as in what I posted on my particular system. 

man dpkg will tell you more about what is does (--verify section).
When I have issues that are similar to yours I run that so I get an idea of what the package was as installed verses what is actually installed, ie how deep of do do is the system in and what did I break.
Then if I have an issue with missing files I can use apt/dpkg to tell me what package that file is in and then maybe reinstall that package or packages. That may get me to the point I have a functional system that I can debug further. 

It is not a panacea but it is a good starting place in my opinion.

I have spoken.





--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

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