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App vanishes on Ubuntu/ Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamonn #96

Open Olaf02 opened 6 years ago

Olaf02 commented 6 years ago

Since a couple of months tomboy keeps vanishing from my system and I need to reinstall it via the terminal. After re-installation it takes a couple of weeks and it vanishes again. The notes remain on the computer however.

davidbannon commented 6 years ago

Olaf02, sorry if you have already ruled this out, but just in case ...

What OS are you using ?

Is the actual binary disappearing or a link to it on (eg) your desktop ? Or is it all there and the mechanism that starts it when you boot not doing its job perhaps ?

If Linux, typing, at the command line -

which tomboy

will find where the actual binary is. "whereis" will show the binary and some other files ...

David

Olaf02 commented 6 years ago

Hi David,

thank you for your reply! I have Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64-bit.

The whole program disappears without a trace. When I open the terminal and type in "tomboy" I get the following message:

The program 'tomboy' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install tomboy

When I type in "which tomboy" there is no output and "whereis tomboy" returns: "tomboy:".

I keep installing it, but after a few days it is gone again.

Regards,

Olaf

On 2018/04/20 12:02 pm, davidbannon wrote:

Olaf02, sorry if you have already ruled this out, but just in case ...

What OS are you using ?

Is the actual binary disappearing or a link to it on (eg) your desktop ? Or is it all there and the mechanism that starts it when you boot not doing its job perhaps ?

If Linux, typing, at the command line -

which tomboy

will find where the actual binary is. "whereis" will show the binary and some other files ...

David

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davidbannon commented 6 years ago

Olaf, this is very strange ! I assume you are installing using apt ? apt-get or dpkg etc ? Or Synaptic ? There should be a trail of whats been through such tools in /var/log/dpkg.log so maybe something like grep tomboy /var/log/dpkg.log I am not sure how often dpkg rolls its logs over, there will be gz versions there with a lot of history if you go digging. Will you see tomboy being installed and uninstalled via some 'official' process ?