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notlurking

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Registered: 2019-06-21

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Missing repositories list synaptic

Hello to all. As the subject says my synaptic is missing the repositories list. How to fix. Love Q4OS. Thanks to all

q4osteam

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Re: Missing repositories list synaptic

Please run in terminal:
$ qrepolist
and post back the output

AF

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Registered: 2025-12-05

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Re: Missing repositories list synaptic

Same problem on whole 6.x TDE build. Repo dont listed in Synaptic

adminq@debian:~$ qrepolist
deb http://q4os.org/q4repo/ q4os-6-0-cn main
deb http://q4os.org/qtderepo/ trixie main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://security.debian.org/ trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
adminq@debian:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.57-1 (2025-11-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux
adminq@debian:~$

q4osteam

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Re: Missing repositories list synaptic

Synaptic does not currently have full support for the modern deb822 format sources files. Q4OS-6 Andromeda and higher uses the recommended deb822 format for sources list. It's not Q4OS, but Debian/Synaptic upstream issue. Nonetheless, your sources list is all right and this issue will not affect your system anyhow.

AF

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Registered: 2025-12-05

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Re: Missing repositories list synaptic

There is no way to fix it? If am add repo in Synaptic it will work or need add in source list?

q4osteam

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Re: Missing repositories list synaptic

The only way to fix Synaptic is to request at Synaptic development team. You could also edit your current sources.list and convert it to the old format, regardless of Debian recommendations for Trixie and higher.

If you want to add a repository the best way is to add it to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ manually, see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty . The default Q4OS configuration offers the basic and dependable set of software repositories. Be warned, external repositories may not work properly and could pull alien packages and broken dependencies. Please read also https://www.q4os.org/dqa007.html#extrepo