Hi,
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:13:28PM +, Keir Wayman wrote:
> I installed the above on my Ubuntu 18.x system. The installation deleted
> more than 90 packages including the gdebi package installer, the
> software-centre, ubuntu-cleaner & the usb disk creator. It's a dangerous
> thing indeed!
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 02:26:47PM +, Keir Wayman wrote:
> The email address that I sent my original email to came from inside the .deb
> package (attached) so I assumed a level of sanity checking had been done.
A level of sanity checking does get done automatically, but only
_against the Ubun
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 10:51 AM Keir Wayman wrote:
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> Hi,
>
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> I installed the above on my Ubuntu 18.x system.
What specific version? 18.x is not a valid version string. 18.04 or 18.10?
> The installation deleted
> more than 90 packages including the gdebi package installer, the
> software-cen
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:42 AM Keir Wayman wrote:
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> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Did you mean 18.04.1?
> Here's the thing, I thought you guys would like to know that this .deb
has some dangerous
> side effects, that's all. Yes doing things as root has dangers, but
that's how you install packages.
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