I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all independently tickable, then there is the choice between 'remove' and 'complete remove'. Is there a simple general rule for how to remove some complex set of items, such as Firefox-as-a-whole, and re-install it?
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 17:04 +0000, Tony Pursell wrote: > On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a > > > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he > > > just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed > > > issues...) > > > > Nah.... there are more important things to do with your time than > > faffing about with a corrupted Firefox. If you uninstall and > > re-install you'll also possibly get a more up-to-date version, so tell > > him that's your motivation if he moans... ;-) > > > > Sean > > > > This might not be a bad idea. My wife found Firefox to be hanging on > videos in Windows until it was upgraded to a new version. Personally. > I have never had this problem in Windows or Ubuntu. > > So a re-install and the ubuntu-restricted-extras might be all you need. > > Tony > > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
