Icon suggests I right click, which doesn't help

Bug #1060497 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Install something which results in a broken package (like corsix-th from http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/ for example - it requires lua-filesystem which isn't in 12.04).
Note a "No Entry" sign in the notification area.
Click on it to see the text:-

"An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong". Followed by some more text.

There's a couple of things wrong with this.

1) There is no "Package Manager" on the "right click menu"
2) Running "apt-get in a terminal" just shows the help for apt-get.

So it's pretty unhelpful to anyone who has this problem, and would be exactly the kind of person who needs this help.

It should possibly suggest running specific apt-get commands, or maybe link to a document on the wiki explaining how to get out of this mess?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-notifier 0.119ubuntu8.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 2 23:30:18 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
tags: added: quantal
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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