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    Apt Global Destruction Error

    I keep getting this ominous error about global destruction when installing with aptitude:
    Code:
    josh@josh-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install linneighborhood
    Password:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    Building tag database... Done
    The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
     smbfs
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
     linneighborhood smbfs
    0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/553kB of archives. After unpacking 1602kB will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
    Writing extended state information... Done
    DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 2 during global destruction.
    Selecting previously deselected package smbfs.
    (Reading database ... 89366 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking smbfs (from .../smbfs_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
    Selecting previously deselected package linneighborhood.
    Unpacking linneighborhood (from .../linneighborhood_0.6.5-3.1_i386.deb) ...
    Setting up smbfs (3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1) ...
    Setting up linneighborhood (0.6.5-3.1) ...
    Just a sample package, The package installs fine, without any problems, except the error message.

    I've asked on the IRC channel and no one can figure it out. Very strange.
    I'm not sure, but I think it's related. Newly installed packages, from the repositories and local *.deb files, do not get automatically put into the KMenu. I learned this command, kbuildsycoca, that used to manually menu-ize things. But now...
    Code:
    josh@josh-desktop:~$ kbuildsycoca
    kbuildsycoca running...
    Reusing existing ksycoca
    kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
    It's so weird, particularly the Global Destruction bit.

    #2
    Re: Apt Global Destruction Error

    There is a source code reader package called Global. If you tried, (unsuccessfully) to install it, that might explain the error that you're getting. There is no package (at least for AMD64) with the name Destroy or Global Destruction). In general, when you get a message relating to some other package while doing an install, you should run the command "sudo dpkg --configure -a", in order to see if you've got any broken or partially installed packages on your system. Try it and see.

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      #3
      Re: Apt Global Destruction Error

      That didn't do anything. No output. Nothing. Maybe that's what it's supposed to do, but still, nothing. >

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        #4
        Re: Apt Global Destruction Error

        When a linux command returns nothing that means it worked. Why waste everybody's time reporting success? Linux commands report only problems. The implication is that global destruction is not a problem. I'm sure a lot of world leaders will be glad to hear that.

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          #5
          Re: Apt Global Destruction Error

          Oh, sorry.
          I guess I knew that.

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