Ubuntu
computer-janitor package

ran computer janitor lost turboprint

Bug #704385 reported by hlee on 2011-01-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #458872: Don't mark for removal manually installed packages. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	computer-janitor (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: computer-janitor

i thought computer-janitor was just cleaning up old files but instead it eliminated my paid version of turboprint .. not sure what else might have been damaged .. i dont know how to get back to working without paying again for turboprint ..

i am using the latest upgrades on ubuntu 10.10 amd 64 bit

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote on 2011-01-18:

As far as i understand it, CJ's list of packages to remove is roughly equivalent to what you see in Synaptic in the 'local or obsolete' category. This means any software you did not install out of a repository (ubuntu standards or, e.g. launchpad PPA's) is regarded as potentially obsolete. As a consequence, any software where you just manually installed a .deb file will be regarded as "cleanable", even if you still use them on a daily basis.

In my opinion, although CJ warns about this in the description of the entries it considers for removal, this is way too dangerous for the common user (as aptly demonstrated here)... I expect a cleaner program to remove unnecessary stuff without the user having to go through huge package lists, checking manually if they maybe installed the marked packages manually at some point in the past. Cf. for a good implementation the standard Windows XP program (don't know the english name - Datenträgerbereinigung).
Incidentally, this described behaviour is why I never use CJ - the dangers and administrative effort to mark all my manually installed packages just plain outweighs the benefits of a little less used disk space.

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Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote on 2011-01-19:

marked as duplicate since the other bug describes what happened to you (in a more general way).
Concerning your problem with turboprint: You can download the deb package from their website again and install it. for unlocking the paid version, a license key seems to be necessary, you should have gotten one by email or something. also, chances are that the license key is still saved in your system (if CJ just uninstalls, and does not purge packages)