Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

[Robin Putters <robin.putters@realworld.nl>]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote:
> I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager.
> I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, 
> access to  Root Terminal does not get a response.  Running  :~$ apt-get 
> check in Terminal returns
> 

Try :
:~$ sudo apt-get update

or 

:~$ su -c "apt-get update"