DO NOT install Tupi 2D Animation software

[Nandakumar]

Can you send the Control file of that deb? And preinst, postinst scripts?

On 12/31/13, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>This is DANGEROUS software.
>>
>>I use Ubuntu 12.10. I installed Tupi (2D Animation package) and without
>>warning it uninstalled software. (Downloaded it from the SourceForge site
>> as
>>a .deb)
>>
>>It removed:
>>
>>gimp
>>inkscape
>>gedit
>>software centre
>
>> How do you know that it has uninstalled them?
>>
>> What do you see if you do
>>
>> apt-cache policy gedit
>>
>> Copy/paste the result here
>>
>> Colin
> Thanks Colin, Giles and Nandakumar.
>
> In SourceForge I downloaded the tupi_0.2-git01.tar.gz
> (sourceforge.net/projects/tupi.berlios/files/?source=navbar) and
> followed the installation procedure as per files in the tarball.
>
> Tupi installed, worked perfectly, but it wasn't until I went to use
> Inkscape and GIMP that I realised that they were no longer installed on
> my system.I am convinced that the programs were uninstalled becasue they
> could not be located anywhere on the system. When opening .svg, only
> Image Viewer (and Firefox) was available and .xcf could not be opened
> except by imageMagick, which was the only option available.
>
> In any case none of this should have happened. Regardless of i386 or
> x86_64, software should not be erased without permission. No update,
> delete or overwrite permissions were requested or granted for the
> installation of Tupi, which took a suspicious 15+ minutes to complete. I
> did not force the installation.
>
> When I reinstalled GIMP via terminal apt-get, the system removed
> everything "Tupi" except for a couple of config files and a palette. It
> seems that there was a conflict between the installation of
> tupi/gimp/inkscape.
>
> I have 1TB HDD of which 25% is used.
>
> Since then I have re-installed the software, and as per instructions (to
> install Software Centre again I used the code on:
> askubuntu.com/questions/79987/how-to-re-install-software-center|sudo
> apt-get update; sudo apt-get --purge --reinstall install software-center
> software-properties-common software-properties-gtk|
> Which repaired a huge number of internal files.
>
> Thanks again,
> Sonia
>