3 Mar
2020
3 Mar
'20
5:18 p.m.
D. R. Evans wrote on 3/3/20 8:11 AM:
I thought it was perfectly safe to execute "apt
autoremove", which I was under
the impression simply cleaned up old, unused .deb files. Apparently I was
wrong, in a major way :-(
After executing autoremove and rebooting, my TDE desktop is missing all the
widgets that used to be on the desktop and in the panels. Worse, I can't find
them to re-add them to the desktop/panel any more. To give just one example, I
used to run superkaramba; now it can't be found anywhere and I can't add it to
the panel.
What do I need to do to get back my wonderful, functional desktop?
That's the last time I trust "autoremove" to do the right thing....
I think I have all of them back, although, weirdly, some of them look
different now. autoremove seems to have quite happily removed some of the
actual installed binaries, not just no-longer-used .deb files. I had to
manually reinstall a bunch of TDE-related packages that the system regarded as
no longer installed (although, weirdly, the .deb files were still around and
did not need to be re-downloaded).
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