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Whenever I use weasel I find that it either freezes, shuts down or dies right in the middle of looking up something.

Hi & welcome to LQ.
Are you talking about Weasel from vmware? A few details about your system would be useful.
jdk

or
The "iceWeasel" web browser
( a fork of Firefox)

I am not sure what I have. When I say I am new, I mean it. my son installed this for me, but is not always available to help. Never mind, I will put up with it. Thanks for you help?? DotJoe

The more you can tell us, the more we can help you. I have some ideas that might help you give us some of the information that can help us help you.

Take a screenshot of the offending program and post it as an attachment to your post. You have to click the "Go Advanced" button at the bottom of the "Quick Reply" window; in the "Advanced" window, you can add a picture as an attachment.

You can also open a terminal and run this command:

Code:

uname -a

Post the output of that command; it will tell us more about your Linux install.

You can also run this command; it's a catch-all command that works with most distros, but may not work with every one. If it works, it will tell you what distro/version you are running:

Code:

cat /etc/*release*

Here's what it returns on my Slackware system:

Code:

$ cat /etc/*release*

NAME=Slackware

VERSION="14.1"

ID=slackware

VERSION_ID=14.1

PRETTY_NAME="Slackware 14.1"

ANSI_COLOR="0;34"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:14.1"

HOME_URL="http://slackware.com/"

SUPPORT_URL="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/"

Post that information also.

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Whenever I use weasel ...

It might also help if you told us what you are trying to do when you use weasel.
jdk