[ubuntu-za] What went wrong?

[Jan Greeff]

Hi all, this old man is slowly getting into the swing of the world of 
Ubuntu: all too slowly.

Yesterday I (once more) tried to purge my vbox to reload and start over, 
but I entered /*sudo apt-get purge virtualbox 4.2 */and was left with a 
crippled machine. Fortunately I was able to install a new Ubuntu in 
parallel and can now access all the documents that I thought I had lost 
via my home folder on a partition, but what went wrong? (I do have a 
backup but it does not include my doings over the last 10 days or so)

Meanwhile I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that vbox, wine 
and all those tricks are just bad news - all of them bite you sooner or 
later, so now I am going to revert to Win xp on my wife's machine where 
I will do all the stuff that do not work on Ubuntu.

Best wishes,

Jan
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