[ale] lots of patches on Ubuntu today

[Ron Frazier]

Do you really believe I should remove mono and reinstall based on this?  
All three of my PC's did the same thing, so I figured it was a) 
legitimate and b) necessary.

Ron

On 03/17/2011 01:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> It's been infected with the "high school kissing disease - mono". Use 
> your system tools to remove all things mono and all things that use it 
> and then add them back and let the package manager pull the best 
> choices for requirements.
>
> My systems here often get a large number of updates at a whack 
> depending on what packages are installed.
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Randy Ramsdell 
> <rramsdell at activedg.com <mailto:rramsdell at activedg.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ron Frazier wrote:
>     > Hi guys.  Ubuntu's update manager wanted to install 118 patches
>     today.
>     > I didn't notice the number before I clicked install.  As it was
>     going
>     > along, I noticed lots of it was the mono libraries.  However,
>     there were
>     > a number of others as well.  Do you guys know of any major
>     security news
>     > or something to trigger this?  Or, just normal stuff?
>     >
>     > Sincerely,
>     >
>     > Ron
>     >
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