K9COPY Users. [Solved]

[kmathern]

Trouble is, there is absolutely nothing in there, not even a hidden file.

What does this show?

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su -c 'ls -la /etc/apt/preferences.d/'

[Jerry3904]

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$ su -c 'ls -la /etc/apt/preferences.d/'
Password: 
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 08:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul  1 08:02 ..

[kmathern]

Okay, what does this return?

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apt-config dump | grep -i synaptic

[Jerry3904]

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jb@aao250:~
$ apt-config dump | grep -i synaptic
jb@aao250:~

Also tried it as root w same result

[timkb4cq]

Try looking in the hidden folder
/root/.synaptic
If the tmp file isn't there, perhaps examining the synaptic.conf file there might yield a clue.

[Jerry3904]

There is a tmp folder there, but it's empty.

Contents of /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf

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Synaptic "" {
  ViewMode "1";
  showWelcomeDialog "0";
  closeZvt "true";
  update "" {
    last "1440846552";
  };

  vpanedPos "381";
  hpanedPos "200";
  windowWidth "1024";
  windowHeight "578";
  windowX "0";
  windowY "0";
  ToolbarState "0";
  Maximized "1";
  Install-Recommends "0";
  LastSearchType "1";
};

[kmathern]

What happens if you remove it even though it doesn't appear to exist?

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su -c 'rm -f /etc/apt/preferences.d/synaptic-rywYPl-pins'

And then run the apt-cache policy command again to see if the error went away

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apt-cache policy k9copy

@Tim, the temporary symlink was: /etc/apt/preferences.d/synaptic-rywYPl-pins -> /var/lib/synaptic/preferences

[Jerry3904]

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root@aao250:/home/jb# su rm -f /etc/apt/preferences.d/synaptic-rywYPl-pins
root@aao250:/home/jb# apt-cache policy k9copy
k9copy:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.3-1mx150+1
  Version table:
     3.0.3-1mx150+1 0
        500 http://main.mepis-deb.org/mx/testrepo/ mx15/test i386 Packages

No understanding of this, but thanks for the help people.

[kmathern]

So that fixed it?
I don't see the "N: Ignoring 'synaptic-rywYPl-pins' in directory '/etc/apt/preferences.d/' as it is not a regular file"

[Jerry3904]

Other then seeing that it is no longer there, I have no way of knowing it's fixed until I install something, I guess.