{"id":172,"date":"2017-06-20T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:48:59","slug":"pac-manager-failure-on-debian-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/pac-manager-failure-on-debian-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"pac manager failure on debian stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After upgrading my laptop from Jessie 8.8 to Debian 9 Stretch on the 19th of June, 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pacmanager\/\">PAC Manager<\/a> stopped working. Specifically, it would start, but hanged when I tried to open a connection, either ssh or local. After searching around, I found the following post which seems to have given the solution:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interesting parts were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/#06b8\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/#06b8<\/a> and the comment reply at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/#06b8\/c89e\">https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/#06b8\/c89e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The complete solution to the issue for me was running the following commands as root (or via sudo if you prefer) :<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libvte-dev libvte-2.91-dev \\\r\ndh-make-perl libextutils-pkgconfig-perl libextutils-depends-perl\r\n\r\ndh-make-perl --cpan Gnome2::Vte --build\r\n\r\ndpkg -i libgnome2-vte*.deb\r\n\r\nfind \/opt\/pac\/ -name \"Vte.so*\" -exec rm {} +<\/pre>\n<p>PAC works wonderfully again. Kudos to the original posters who proposed a working solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After upgrading my laptop from Jessie 8.8 to Debian 9 Stretch on the 19th of June, 2017, PAC Manager stopped working. Specifically, it would start, but hanged when I tried to open a connection, either ssh or local. After searching around, I found the following post which seems to have given the solution: https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/pacmanager\/bugs\/293\/ The &#8230; <a title=\"pac manager failure on debian stretch\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/pac-manager-failure-on-debian-stretch\/\" aria-label=\"More on pac manager failure on debian stretch\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[10,12,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkdebian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}