On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Update-manager's little triangular icon won't go away. If I can > copy/paste its output: > > But I cannot do anything except a screenshot. Why do the gui writers > saddle us with such broken software?
Any number of reasons, but it boils down to a combination of "no-one has complained loud enough" and "we wrote enough to get it to work for MOST people". I believe the most sensible thing is for the graphical toolkit to provide this functionality - in the same way that Microsoft Windows' standard dialogs can be "copied" which results in a standardised text-rendering of the dialog going to the clipboard. That way, all widgets derived from the toolkit gain the functionality but, of course, any application-specific widgets would need to re-implement it. > > In any event, the error msg says a subdir of wheezy seems to be missing, > but that subdir path is a generated path, and does NOT exist in a > grep -R "Updates/Binary-i386/Packages * output done in /etc/apt. > > By experimenting and reloading, it appears this entry may be the bad one: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main > updates Assuming that this is all on one line, "updates" is a bogus keyword. You probably want something like: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > > Why specifically should that consistently fail since the install a couple > months ago? Seems to me like its quite important because of the updates > keyword. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504270737.26481.ghesk...@wdtv.com >
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