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Need information about packages

Asked by Margaret Mackintosh

Hi,

I was starting to put a listing on eBay and tried to upload pictures. No link without having the pictures on a web site. Called eBay and they suggested I change browsers although Google Chrome is a browser they use. Had problems with Firefox so switched to Chrome. She suggested to go back to Firefox. I tried to open the Package Manager to check it out. I am not able to open it, got this message "Manually put in - dpkg -- configure -a". I did and this is what came up on the screen"

margaret@margaret-Z62FM:~$ dpkg -- configure -a
dpkg: error: need an action option

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !
margaret@margaret-Z62FM:~$

So what do I do about this? The problem evidently didn't get solved after all by switching browsers. Any suggestions?

Margaret

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo apt-get -f install

Thanks

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Margaret Mackintosh (mackintosh-margaret) said : 		#2

Hi everyone,

I went to Mozilla Firefox website and downloaded their newest version of Firefox. Then to install it I had to try and open the Synaptic Package Manager. This time when I carefully put in the password to open it and then clicked to open, it did so. Not the faintest idea of why it worked this time. But, I now have Firefox installed and updated. Just tried to list on eBay and I now have the 'old' way of adding pictures by going to my picture folder in my home folder. So in this respect Firefox is much better then Chrome as there was no way to upload photos on eBay from my Home Folder using Chrome.

So by installing and updating Firefox this problem is now solved. Thanks for helping anyway.

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Margaret Mackintosh (mackintosh-margaret) said : 		#4

Even though the problem is solved I wanted to answer Andrew. Below is a result of the command you asked me to try.

margaret@margaret-Z62FM:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo apt-get -f install
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux margaret-Z62FM 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:02:19 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
[sudo] password for margaret:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for margaret:
no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  garmin-forerunner-tools language-pack-zh-hans language-pack-zh-hans-base
  libtinyxml2.6.2 libufe-xidgetter0 linux-headers-3.13.0-24
  linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic python3-dirspec
  webaccounts-extension-common xul-ext-websites-integration
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
margaret@margaret-Z62FM:~$

Not sure why I have it or what to do about the leaking memory.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Will clear the unnecessary packages. This is nothing to do with leaking memory.

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Margaret Mackintosh (mackintosh-margaret) said : 		#6

Hi,

Did as you suggested. This is the results:

margaret@margaret-Z62FM:~$ sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
[sudo] password for margaret:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for margaret:
no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  garmin-forerunner-tools* language-pack-zh-hans* language-pack-zh-hans-base*
  libtinyxml2.6.2* libufe-xidgetter0* linux-headers-3.13.0-24*
  linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic* linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic*
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic* python3-dirspec*
  webaccounts-extension-common* xul-ext-websites-integration*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
After this operation, 232 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

"the following packages" that it wants to remove was just installed with the new Firefox. Should I keep them or delete them? What can I do if anything about the leaking memory?

Margaret

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> sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
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> Will clear the unnecessary packages. This is nothing to do with leaking
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