Update Manager 'Distribution updates'

[Steven Susbauer]

On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:12:24 -0500, Steve Flynn  
<anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Thomas Kaiser <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li>  
> wrote:
>
>
>> I tried the mention commands from Karl, but without sudo!
>> I just got the "Wizard" to set up evolution. I don't use evolution, so I
>> never set it up. If I would have a spar box to trash, I would try this
>> commands from Karl with sudo and see what happens.
>
>> Karl, looks like good advice but some more explanation why it solves the
>> problem would help.
>
> Frankly, offering (obviously) untested commands prefixed with sudo to
> other users on this list is something I cannot abide. The potential
> for make a complete mess of someone elses machine is astronomical.
>
> Then again, Karl is often so far off base with his "advice" it doesn't
> come as a great surprise.
>


The command was obviously meant to be aptitude (the package manager) and  
not evolution (the mail client). They are, as mentioned, completely  
unrelated and should be an obvious mistake ("Why would I use a mail  
program to work with packages?"/"Why would I use an eggplant to cut down a  
tree?"), especially if you have ever run aptitude (or apt-get, the same  
syntax works with either). Should sudo commands be tested? Of course, and  
anybody should be testing or researching any commands they are given on  
here because in the end *they* are responsible for broken systems, bad  
advice (or typos) or not. In any case, this particular command is not  
dangerous, just does not fix the problem.

Lets keep the personal comments out of it, all that was needed was a quick  
correction (as Karl himself provided within 10 minutes of your snide  
commentary).

  -Steve