Thanks for the reply! Comments interspersed below.
On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:14:48 AM Johann Klammer wrote: > BTW: What is apper? I can't seem to find any package with that name on my > system... apper is a GUI package manager for Debian--sort of a GUI version of apt-get. (IIRC, there have been several GUI and non-GUI package managers for Debian). > > So, now what do I do? > > > > Per the warning from Johann Klemmer, I want to be careful about > > rebooting--I don't want to attempt a reboot that might fail. > > > > Is there any log of the apper install process that would give me more > > > information than the popup messages: > You could try .xsession-errors in your home dir. No luck there--it found a lot of "pagewrapper"s, but no just plain "apper"s. > It's typically where all the sessions' output gets dumped. > otherwise look for apper docs /usr/share/doc/<packagename> I'll try that a little later today.
