[ubuntu-uk] automatic updates easily compromised by a fool.

[Philip Edwards]

I might be fast approaching the end of my Ubuntu experiment.
It looks like I'm heading for a second re-install, both events caused by
the same problem....It appears that the automatic updates system can be
easily compromised by a fool.

My automatic updates no longer works.

The little orange icon showm that I have updates to install, but when I
click on it, I get this.

E: dpkg was interrupted.. You must manually run dpkg –configure -a to
correct the problem.

So I try.

Setting up linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-28-amd64-generic
(2.6.15.12-28.2) ...
Setting up sun-java5-doc (1.5.0-06-1) ...
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
J2SDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the
archives:

jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip jdk-1_5_0-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
Please visit

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.html


and then I get lost or give up because the website above doesn't appear
to have anything to do with my problem.....or does it.


I suspect that my problem was caused by simply trying to add multimedia
features to Open Office presentations.