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

[Neil Greenwood]

On 06/07/07, Philip Edwards <groeswenphil at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 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.

I hope that you won't give up. Minor hiccups like this do sometimes
happen. Hopefully our suggestions will encourage you to keep trying
with Ubuntu.

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

I would guess that you chose a 'recommended' package while adding the
Java package that enhances OpenOffice.org. Unless you are a Java
programmer (like me), you can safely abort the
installation/configuration of the sun-java5-doc package, as Eddie
suggested. It's very technical documentation only intended as a
reference for programmers.

If anyone else reading the thread would like the docs, the option to
download the files mentioned (jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip or
jdk-1_5_0-doc-ja.zip) appears if you click the button under the "J2SE
5.0 Documentation" heading, as Matthew said. You only need one of the
two files.


Hope this helps.
Hwyl,
Neil.