Programs missing after update.

[Colin Law]

On 13 March 2014 16:27, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
> On 14-03-09 05:00 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 9 March 2014 00:05, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14-03-08 03:52 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 8 March 2014 03:25, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ever since I installed the last update with the newest kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> My gCDemu program is gone. I have been using to mount play disk images
>>>>> for
>>>>> windows games on a virtual cd.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been trying to reinstall it and it keeps giving me errors
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cdemu/ppa
>>>>> sudo update
>>>>> and it updates the list from the repository
>>>>> when I
>>>>> sudo apt-get install gcdemu
>>>>
>>>> Which version of Ubuntu are you using?  System Settings > Details will
>>>> tell you.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise lts
>>
>> If you look at https://launchpad.net/~cdemu/+archive/ppa you will see
>> that it is not available for 12.04 from that ppa, so that explains the
>> errors.  It appears that if you want to use the ppa you will have to
>> upgrade to a later version of Ubuntu.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I still don't understand how gcdemu, and cdemu-client was removed from my
> system????

Where was it installed from originally? The ppa?  I can't believe that
it was in the Ubuntu 12.04 repo and was then removed from there.

Colin

>
> I didn't remove it it was just gone. It seems like Ubuntu is getting flakey
> just like Ms Windows. If you have stop installing the updates that defeats
> the purpose.