Synaptic crashes trying to install ddclient

[vish bus]

I installed the ddClient as you asked, but my system didn't crash.


On 9/24/06, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running a new install of Kubuntu 6.0.6 and the first thing I did was
> to use Adept to install Synaptic.  I was tired of the lock file problem.
>
> I've used Synaptic to do a package update and installed about 20
> packages but Synaptic is crashing when trying to install ddclient
> 3.6.2-6ubuntu1.  Every other install has gone smoothly.
>
> Synaptic stalls completely at the Applying Changes - Installing Software
> window and the process has to be killed - the window does not respond in
> any way.
>
> After the first crash while installing a bunch of packages, I restarted
> Synaptic and started installing the packages one at a time.  It crashes
> every time I try to install ddclient.  My source.list file is basically
> the plain vanilla file without multiverse.
>
> Any idea why this is happening?  Could someone try to install ddclient
> and see if _theirs_ crashes also?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Larry
>
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