Ubuntu - I is retarded

Well, I am getting pretty good at installing Ubuntu on my computer. Mainly because I have done it 3-4 times in the last few days.

But, my issue with 'updating' causing the computer to die was perhaps not the updates fault, but the clumsy oaf who is messing with the system.

Because the said clumsy oaf is trying to tidy the system and his first angle of attack was Evolution, the Email program installed as standard, but obviously has its fingers deeper in the system than just that, so doing a hash clean out removes half the system, so it doesn't boot.

I tried to recover with a good old "sudo apt-get install evolution" but that did about as much as nothing.

Re-install, and then get on with it all.