On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > > --- In [email protected], Turin Turambar <TurinTurambar.1@...> > wrote: > > > > Just thought that I would post this warning for others who have installed > > Debian Squeeze. > > > > 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 > > If you think you've found a bug then file a report. Only you can prevent > software buggery! > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ > > 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. > > 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 > > 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. > > Perhaps for some odd reason software-center is determining that you no > longer need some of your network software on your system? > > For the record I use aptitude in the non-interactive mode here. If I use > anything at all. > >
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... > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
