A piece ‘a Me

Had a weird old problem with Ubuntu this morning. I opened the ‘Add/Remove…’ application to install Wine and Flickr Uploader only to be presented with a blank page. No applications listed, not even those that were installed.

After a lot of swearing and a quick Google I found the solution:

Enter the terminal (at your own risk) and enter:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-app-install

You’ll need to enter the password for your account and have permission to run stuff as root, but it’ll sit and re-install the package. When it’s all done it’ll drop you back to the prompt. Mine worked just fine after that.

I’ve been trying to remember the German word for ‘workshy’. I found it, it’s ‘arbeitsscheu’.

Why was I looking for this? Well it relates back to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. One of it’s first major influxes was the ‘workshy’ and ‘asocial’ from Berlin. I couldn’t remember what the Nazi’s referred to the people as.