Using smart package manager in Ubuntu hoary

**mattblack_uk** · June 5th, 2005

I tried googling for this:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

but it came up with many different responses and as somebody relatively new top linux, I struggled to understand any of them. Some were talking of problems with permissions and X server but to be honest, most of it went straight over my head...

I tried reinstalling python and smart, but it made no difference to the error....

guess I'm a bit useless at this kind of stuff....

**rwabel** · June 5th, 2005

I don't think the problem with smart is related with

Code:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

It seems more that something is wrong configured within smart

With the following command you can use smart without any problems? This would mean that smart is working but only in shell!

Code:

 smart --shell

maybe u are also missing channels. what does this command say

Code:

smart channel --show

with the command

Code:

smart channel --add

you can add somehow channels.

I've no big experience with that tool and I've never used it.
Maybe there is someone around who know SMART a bit and can explain the error message. And maybe some of my adived can help u.

Good luck and let me know

**mattblack_uk** · June 6th, 2005

Ok.. I'll have a look at the channels tonight, but as far as I understand, the Hoary package has the channels already set up. If it continues to fail, then I may try the package in breezy.

**mattblack_uk** · June 7th, 2005

I've worked out how to add the Hoary channels, and I can get smart working via the shell no problems, but still can't get the gui. I'm guessing that its a problem with python-gtk2...

I've learnt a lot tonight - like what to do when I accidentally remove myself from the sudo group!
I won't be doing that again!

**rwabel** · June 7th, 2005

did u try to completely remove python-gtk2 and reinstall it?
what version of it do u have installed?

**SymGeosis** · June 12th, 2005

Has anybody gotten this to work with the backports repositories?

Getting SmartPM to work with the other repositories was cake but it appears to not know how to handle "Release" or "Release.gpg" being in "main/i386-binaries." I've tried modifying various fields via the shell and the gui to correct this but as of so far have been unsucessful.

Any suggestions?

**geearf** · August 4th, 2005

I've just read this topic, and their website, this seems very nice, if it really resolves the problems it lists (which of course I already had).

Any news for this on breezy ?