Who or what is Whoopsie?

[NickStone]

Looking through System Monitor I came across an application called "Whoopsie" which is also displayed as a user name. Who or what is it? So far searching online I cannot find any information about what it is.

[james147]

Looking through System Monitor I came across an application called "Whoopsie" which is also displayed as a user name. Who or what is it? So far searching online I cannot find any information about what it is.

Suspicious,,,

dpkg -S `which whoopsie`

to see which package owns it.

Edit: actually, it looks legit: http://askubuntu.com/questions/13554...an-i-remove-it

[NickStone]

Running the following code

dpkg -S 'which whoopsie'

Produced this

dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *which whoopsie*.

[kubicle]

That's because you used single quotes ('), while james used backticks (`) which means "run the command and insert output here", this is the same as

dpkg -S $(which whoopsie)

(this syntax is usually preferred, it also helps to avoid confusion)

Whoopsie:
"This program submits crash reports back to an Ubuntu server."
(I don't think it's required for kubuntu, though)

[NickStone]

Thanks for the link. Have now removed it from system.

It must have been a leftover from when Ubuntu was installed. I installed Kubuntu 12.04 from a cover disk from a magazine which also installed both the Ubuntu and Xubuntu desktops, had removed (what I thought) all packages from both Ubuntu and Xubuntu packages, but obviously not.

[james147]

That's because you used single quotes ('), while james used backticks (`) which means "run the command and insert output here", this is the same as

dpkg -S $(which whoopsie)

(this syntax is usually preferred, it also helps to avoid confusion)

Opps, yes that is a bad habit learnt along time ago hard to change.

[Snowhog]

paul@tanagra:~$ dpkg -S $(which whoopsie)
dpkg-query: error: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument

paul@tanagra:~$ dpkg -S `which whoospie`
dpkg-query: error: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument

Neither syntax works here. Are you sure you have them correctly written?

[kubicle]

Neither syntax works here. Are you sure you have them correctly written?

You would have to have whoopsie installed for them to work, otherwise "which whoopsie" doesn't output anything (if you are using bash) and the dpkg command fails
There is also a typo in james' command whoospie>whoopsie.

[Snowhog]

Ah. Thank you. Yes, whoopsie isn't installed here. Testing the commands with kontact works:

paul@tanagra:~$ dpkg -S $(which kontact)
kontact: /usr/bin/kontact

paul@tanagra:~$ dpkg -S `which kontact`
kontact: /usr/bin/kontact

[tek_heretik]

Thanks for the link. Have now removed it from system.

It must have been a leftover from when Ubuntu was installed. I installed Kubuntu 12.04 from a cover disk from a magazine which also installed both the Ubuntu and Xubuntu desktops, had removed (what I thought) all packages from both Ubuntu and Xubuntu packages, but obviously not.

Ha ha, too funny, whoopsie, Ubuntu left a little poopsie on your computer, lol, good thing it wasn't the brown/smelly kind.

Edit: That's weird, whoopie, oopsie, I meant whoopsie has its own user. Ok, I'll stop now, I'm having too much fun with this. =)

[HalationEffect]

paul@tanagra

Do you also have machines called Darmok and Jalad?

[Snowhog]

Do you also have machines called Darmok and Jalad?

Hehe. A STNG fan too I see.

No, I don't. It would be great if both laptops could have the same host name (can't, as they are on the same home network), in which case I'd rename my user accounts to darmok and jalad so that my identifications would be:

darmok@tanagra and jalad@tanagra

That would be way cool.

[HalationEffect]

Hehe. A STNG fan too I see.

No, I don't. It would be great if both laptops could have the same host name (can't, as they are on the same home network), in which case I'd rename my user accounts to darmok and jalad so that my identifications would be:

darmok@tanagra and jalad@tanagra

That would be way cool.

Just, for the love of the FSM, don't have a machine called Shaka... or your firewall might fall...

[Snowhog]

Just, for the love of the FSM, don't have a machine called Shaka... or your firewall might fall...

hahah. Good one. Got me laughing. Laughing is good for the soul.

[HalationEffect]

I aim to please!

Gotta admit that Darmok is one of my fave TNG episodes, mainly because of the Gilgamesh reference.