And bet what? I did it myself, too. Having been in a hurry I said yes
just to find out that apt started to uninstall parts of the desktop
environment I used to start the command from (within a Konsole session).
In case you do it: You own it. And its yours to fix it :), no one else
is obligated to fix it for you. Of course you can still ask for help.
[...]
In case you ask, provide full output of apt so we can all know what it
is about to do, in case you say yes.
Just a note to future users (including myself), in addition to the very good advice from Martin
: in case you accidentally say yes, not everything is lost.
Debian is so great that it keeps snapshots of the package archive at different points in time:
You can check what "apt-get dist-upgrade" did to your system by inspecting "
/var/log/apt/history.log". If it says:
Start-Date: 2018-05-17 10:31:21
[...]
End-Date: 2018-05-17 10:53:24
Start-Date: 2018-06-28 18:45:04
Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages'
Requested-By: john (1002)
Upgrade: [..] plasma-nm:amd64 (4:5.12.3-2, 4:5.13.1-1)
Remove: [..] plasma-workspace:amd64 (4:5.12.5-1)
You can:
- point your /etc/apt/sources.list to a snapshot archive very close to the last successful update (2018-05-17 10:31:21)
- apt-get update (to fetch the list of packages from that point in time)
- apt-get install [..] plasma-nm:amd64=4:5.12.3-2 [..] plasma-workspace:amd64=4:5.12.5-1
(so, you ask to install the removed packages and the previous version of upgraded ones)
(you can produce this list automatically from the log with a bit of work)
YMMV but it worked for me.
-- Marco