<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Back in Nov 2016, at the beginning of my foray into Linux, I wanted to toss Firefox from Ubuntu Mate and install Firefox-ESR. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I did the autoremove thing and proceeded to clobber the OS, rendering a non-booting system(Thinkpad T430s). <br>I did it with Ubuntu Xfce too, same issue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I then tried "remove" as opposed to autoremove of Firefox and then install Firefox-ESR and that worked a treat, a lot less packages removed and the system remained stable without any issues.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I need to research what really goes on with remove/autoremove/purge. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Seems like "remove" ditches the program but leaves config files and dependencies behind(which I am fine with).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> I think autoremoving Firefox(baked into the ISO) also removed it's dependencies which other apps/OS also needed to run properly. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">So much to learn here, thanks for the feedback.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_9143353815084831009gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 5:34 AM Sandeep Johri <<a href="mailto:sandeepjohri@rogers.com" target="_blank">sandeepjohri@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>What I rely on is the ability of the distro to identify packages
that are not needed and removing them using 'autoremove'. I run
Debian - not sure if this is distro specific or available across
all flavors of Linux.</p>
<p>I run XFCE and have Digikam installed.<br>
</p>
<pre class="m_9143353815084831009gmail-m_-5053952079053994596moz-signature" cols="72">From:
Sandeep Johri</pre>
<div class="m_9143353815084831009gmail-m_-5053952079053994596moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-02-08 9:13 p.m., Ron Singh
wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I
got me some learning to do on the "purge" parameters -- I am
just so hyper-paranoid that more than what came will go away.<br>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ron Singh<br>
<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:57 PM
Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>If you are running a Debian derived system, then you
can experiment as much as you want</div>
<div>with DigiKam and any other KDE based app.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>$ sudo aptitude install blah</div>
<div>... [pulls in a lot of stuff]</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>... test it out <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>$ sudo aptitude purge blah</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Everything goes back to how it was before you installed
the application.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>So, not really a concern, and no need to install a KDE
desktop just to test ... <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I run a couple of KDE programs on Xubuntu without
issues.<br>
</div>
</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at
8:53 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the warning. It doesn't matter
too much. I run vCenter, so I'll just spin up a new
Kubuntu. I usually stick with Cinnamon, Mate, or XFCE
normally.</div>
<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at
8:22 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Digikam
brings along a whack of KDE dependencies with it
-- not sure if you are using a distro with the
KDE desktop.<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You might
want to try Digikam packaged as an AppImage
first to see if it does what you need.</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See:</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.digikam.org/download/" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/download/</a><br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The
download options on the upper-left-hand of your
screen offers 32-bit and 64-bit AppImages of
DigiKam.</div>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ron Singh<br>
<br>
</div>
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2019 at 8:02 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks folks!
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I'll check out that reddit group, but
DigiKam might do what I need...</div>
</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 7,
2019 at 2:31 PM Chamunks <<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">A very helpful resource that
I've found for self-hosted solutions which
may lead you down the path to a solution
would be <a href="https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted" target="_blank">https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted</a> they
have an incredible and growing list of
options for FOSS self-hosted options for
everything. I remember a number of things
hitting the sub with image hosting and
organization in mind without having to do a
full NextCloud Installation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu,
Feb 7, 2019 at 5:46 AM Sandeep Johri <<a href="mailto:sandeepjohri@rogers.com" target="_blank">sandeepjohri@rogers.com</a>>
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<p>I use Digikam to manage my photos.
May be worth a try if you haven't
looked at it as yet (<a class="m_9143353815084831009gmail-m_-5053952079053994596gmail-m_-4205357446269761324gmail-m_-8265121143998690280gmail-m_5661687867175778385gmail-m_4538084537905419777gmail-m_-1022778241024632286m_1384196568676586439moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.digikam.org/" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/</a>)<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's been a while since
I used it but I know that GThumb
used to have a bunch of options for
bulk operations, including using
exif data. One case that turned out
really well was when I had renamed a
bunch of pictures I was having
printed off with the date as the
file name - which ended up being
printed on the back of the photo.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at
22:17, Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I am looking for
suggestions or ideas on how to
manage photos. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Currently I have a FreeNAS
box with about 250GB of
pictures (41,000 files),
semi-organized into folders,
but with the date stamps all
being accurate, from what I
can tell.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I'd like some way to
re-organize all the pictures,
by date, and be able to add a
description in the exif
information. I know I could
probably create a shell script
to move the pictures around,
but I was hoping there'd be
some Open Source management
system that can help me do it.</div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Any help would be
appreciated.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
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