Whenever I open the “Help” program, a message saying “Downloading wine_shockwave_installer (12 MB)” or something like that appears. It stays for a few seconds, goes away, then reappears for another few seconds, and it repeats that three times. Then “Help” opens. It’s really, really annoying. How can I fix it?
Hmm, I’ve never known this to happen - Not even sure what wine_shockwave_installer even is…
Please could you provide a screenshot?
@lah7: Sure! Here you go:
Looks like a pretty generic message, not sure what's causing it. Can only assume a process is executing zenity (used to create dialog boxes like this).
You can trace it in the System Monitor. Under the "Processes" tab, ensure View → Dependencies is checked, and when this dialog is present, type in "zenity" and it should jump to the process and reveal its parent.
Just as an example:
Anyway, it might be possible to fix it by re-installing Wine, but I have a feeling it's not directly related to Wine.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall wine
So did you install Wine and/or Silverlight?
I came across this bug report yesterday, but wasn't sure what pipelight even is, but it appears to be installed.
Try forcing an update, apparently this keeps appearing because the download had failed:
pipelight-plugin --update
Or if you don't use pipelight (Microsoft Silverlight?), consider removing it.
Pipelight is not in the official repositories so it didn’t ship with Ubuntu MATE.
@lah7 When I try to update it, this error appears:
It appears the script is failing because it doesn't have permission to access a folder in your home directory (.gnupg/). This could be caused if a program was ran as sudo and now root has ownership of the folder.
If this is the case, try setting it back:
sudo chown -R <yourusername> .gnupg/
Then see if the command works this time.
@lah7 Ok, I did that, and it half worked. I had to run the command as root until it did anything. The message still appears, but only for a split second. Then “Help” opens. It’s much less unbearable now, but if there’s a way to completely make the message go away, that would be nice.