[ubuntu-uk] How have I killed my system?

[Gareth France]

On 30/04/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote:
> On 30 April 2012 21:32, Gareth France<gareth.france at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 30/04/12 21:22, Barry Drake wrote:
>>> On 30/04/12 21:12, Gareth France wrote:
>>>> Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error message every
>>>> 10 seconds or so. I tried to do updates and it says: Requires installation
>>>> of untrusted packages The action would require the installation of packages
>>>> from unauthenticated sources.
>>>
>>> Do you have any weird ppa's included in your apt sources?
>>>
>> None at all. This happened because I tried to install a .deb file and it
>> brought up the message. I tried to install with dpkg which told me it needed
>> libssh2-1. I installed libssh2-1 and then the .deb. It's been like this ever
>> since, even after removing libssh2-1.
> Possibly it is whatever you installed from the .deb file that is
> causing the crash.  I suggest uninstalling it.
>
> You would have been better to start your initial post with "Today my
> system started crashing after I installed from a .deb file" rather
> than "Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error
> message every 10 seconds or so".
>
> Colin
>
Unfortunately it's not showing up in the software centre so I'm unsure 
of how to uninstall it. As for the wording of my post I've long since 
learned that I get shouted at for my wording however I put it so I've 
given up on that one!