On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Turin Turambar <TurinTurambar.1@...>
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> > Just thought that I would post this warning for others who have installed
> > Debian Squeeze.
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> > I'm only guessing, here. I did some Googling, but couldn't find any
> > corroboration, on this. However, I suspect that Squeeze's "Software
> > Center" (a more user friendly alternative to Synaptic) has a serious bug
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> If you think you've found a bug then file a report. Only you can prevent
> software buggery!
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> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
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> I'm not seeing anything like you've described on the tracker. I think
> software-center is actually an Ubuntu package Debian is carrying. Honestly
> I was surprised to see it in my package listing.
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> You may have perhaps inadvertently configured software-center in some
> manner at some time in the past that is causing it to do what you are
> experiencing now. I say this based on what I am reading about it in $
> aptitude show software-center
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> Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing applications
> The Software Center lets you browse and install thousands of free
> applications. You can view available applications by category, or search
> quickly by name or
> description. You can also examine the applications already installed, and
> remove those you no longer need.
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> Perhaps for some odd reason software-center is determining that you no
> longer need some of your network software on your system?
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> For the record I use aptitude in the non-interactive mode here. If I use
> anything at all.
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Thanks. I really can't be sure what caused this, but, after happening
twice, I just thought that I would raise the possibility with a heads up to
other Debian-philes. My laptop is getting old, and, I recently had to
clean the fan, which had some serious dust in it. So, perhaps, it's
hardware related...
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