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). Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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