Re: Lots of Gnome missing from Sid?
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org <debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org> wrote:
> Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> > A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i
> wanted more up to date packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks
> to some helpful suggests, i concluded that it was safe to go
> to unstable. I change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to
> sid, and away i went.
> >
> > Since then things have been ok; sometimes a package i
> needed broke but it was alwaays back in a day or two.
> > Usually i use Synaptic, but today i ran apt-get from
> the commandline and it prompted me to remove unnecessary
> packages, so i ran this and without paying too much
> attention realized that it had removed 270MB of stuff,
> including very large chunks of Gnome as being
> "unnecessary'. Now my box is sort of unusable.
> >
> > Is this some very temporary thing, or did i really
> bite off more than i could chew? How do i get back to a
> usable system?
> >
> > Jen
> >
>
> My understanding is that sometimes packages need to get
> uninstalled to solve dependency issues (in order to properly
> process a significant upgrade). If you're running
> unstable/sid, this will happen sometimes. As someone
> who's used sid/unstable on my main desktop machines for
> many years I can tell you that most of the time the fix is
> as simple as reinstalling afterwards. Have you tried yet
> something like (I've been following the advice to use
> aptitude instead of apt-get happily for years now also):
>
> aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment
Thanks. That was, in fact, all it took!
I thought that something had happened requiring Gnome to be removed, or that it wouldnt be so simple.
> My advice is to be much more careful with the timing of
> attempted upgrades. When running unstable, you
> shouldn't just blithely upgrade regularly, and when you
> do upgrade, pay more attention to what is proposed for
> removal before allowing it to proceed. And always give
> yourself a little bit of time afterwards to sort stuff out
> (don't ever attempt upgrades 10 minutes before planning
> to leave your machine/office/home/whatever).
Yeah. I already am sorta careful but ill be much mroe so. And ill totally say "no" if it wants to remove my entire system!
Thanks.
Jen
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