Comment 11 for bug 64814
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| iKs (iks279) wrote Re: [Bug 64814] Re: apt wants to auto-remove all my system!!! | #11 |
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Nick Lawson wrote:
> I just gave this a test.
>
> I installed kubuntu-desktop: sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
>
> I waited until it was all done
>
> I removed amarok:
>
> sudo apt-get remove amarok.
>
> It offered to remove kubuntu-desktop for me. I told it 'uh, ok' and boom, all gone.
> Its not even listed under 'atuomatically installed'. It says
> "The following packages will be REMOVED:" and lists kubuntu-desktop under there! This is after already deleting the extended_states file as mentioned here.
>
> Thank goodness that this time I had ubuntu desktop installed as a
> backup...
>
kubuntu-desktop is a meta-package anyway so removing it wont affect your
system at all.
But its still a problem that apt-get doesnt know how to handle
dependencies correctly. As a temporary solution, I would tell you to use
aptitude, which works perfectly on my system (ubuntu-desktop) and which
is supposed to be the new generation apt tool :)
iKs.