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[Brian McKee]

Brian McKee to derogers
	
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dave Rogers <derogers at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:06 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>>On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Dave Rogers <derogers at rogers.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:50 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Dave Rogers <derogers at rogers.com> wrote:
>>>> My install/remove programs is not working.  It shows the programs and
>>>> lets  me select an action but when it attempts to remove or add it freezes.
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>    When you say 'freezes' what happens?  Just that program freezes?
>>> The whole desktop?
>>> A little more info would be helpful.
>>>    A good second troubleshooting step would be to try Synaptic.  It's
>>> under System -> Administration
> Now type the following command   (easiest might be to just copy and paste
> this)
>    sudo aptitude update  && sudo aptitude upgrade
> Brian:
> Here is the info;
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ok - Aptitude/apt-get looks happy... your problem isn't there.
(You're up to date too :-)

So, let's see if we get any indication of what's happening when you
run add/remove programs.

Open a terminal window and type
  gnome-app-install
That will start the add-remove programs program.   Do whatever it is
you normally do to cause it to hang.
Now paste whatever appears in that terminal window back here and we'll
take a look at that.
And detail exactly the steps you take to make it hang.   I'm not
seeing the problem yet.

Brian


PS - While I don't have a big preference,  the tradition in Linux/Unix
circles has become 'bottom posting' email
       When you have time, you might read up on it a bit
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html et al
       Some people get very uptight about it.