unusual Update Manager update offering

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:14:33 -0500
Default User <xyzzyx at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Update Manager just popped up with the latest list of new updates.  The
> list shows 8 total updates.  But for one of these, 
> 
> libtotem-plparser10
> 
> the "check" button in front of it was unchecked.  I have never seen this
> happen before. 

This happened here too. Don't panic :)

>I did, 
> 
> sudo find / libtotem-plparse* 
> 
> which found no such file on my system.  But Totem 2.22.1 does appear to
> be installed on my system.  So, 
> 
> 1) Why is this update not "checked", and 

This is a guess, but I think one possible explanation is that a problem
was discovered with that package, and it has been temporarily "stopped".

> 2) Should I just do the other updates as usual and ignore this one, or
> check the update to do it also, or do something else?

I just did the other updates... nothing seems to be broken as a result :)

I suspect that the package will reappear without the greyed-out check box,
and be downloaded and installed on the next update, or soon anyway,
assuming that my guess above is correct. This has been known to happen
before when a particular package was discovered to have a problem, and is
usually fixed pretty promptly.

Peter

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