[kwlug-disc] Interesting problem i had yesterday with Ubuntu

[Erik Schnetter]

This happened to me in the past as well.

I uninstalled some software on which "ubuntu-studio-desktop" depends,
and (without looking) accepted the conflict resolution that
uninstalled "ubuntu-studio-desktop". Afterwards, of course, most of
the desktop packages were considered redundant.

-erik

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I installed a piece of software using the command line yesterday, and apt reported a long list of packages that it claimed were redundant and could be removed with "sudo apt autoremove".  I didn't look very closely at the list, and when I ran the program and saw some of the packages being removed I became concerned.  I rebooted the computer to discover that the entire desktop system had been removed, and my computer booted into the command line login prompt.
>
> Is this a bug, or is this the behaviour I should have expected from that command?  I was able to just install the "ubuntu-studio-desktop" package and the system was restored almost completely.  Still a bit frustrating though
>
> Brent
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