Re: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Steven Sciame <sasciame@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Steven Sciame <sasciame@yahoo.com>
> Subject: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.
> To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 11:51 AM
>
> This originates from me trying to figure out why my digital
> camera doesn't work well with Squeeze (It was absolutely
> perfect in Lenny) I submitted a couple of bug reports
> back in february http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612699 and ;
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612701 ;
>
> I haven't heard anything so I tried to continue finding a
> work around for this problem (getting my digital camera to
> work well with squeeze ie, connect and import photos
> consistently)
>
> When plugging in the camera I got two identical windows
> popping up telling me that there was a camera attached plus
> a third that says, "Unable to mount KODAK EasyShare CX7430
> Zoom Digital Camera" and "Error initializing camera:
> -60: Could not lock the device"
>
> I tried just using Shotwell but it was icredibly slow
> compared to gthumb in regards to importing and even
> accessing the photos on a device, almost to the point where
> I thought it locked up. I would walk away for awhile
> and come back and it would be done with whatever it was
> doing. This makes it impractical to use.
>
> Gtuumb is inconsistent in Squeeze though because sometimes
> it does not display all the contents of the camera.
> (only those on internal memory card, not the photos on the
> SD card) I usually have to plug it in and unplug it
> several times to get it to properly read contents of
> camera. Once you do that, gthumb is good though.
>
> I figured I would remove gthumb and shotwell and install
> one or the other to see if one would work. I got the
> same performance as described above. Apt-get seemed to not
> be bothered by me dong this last night, but this morning it
> is an issue.
>
> autoremove is insisting on removing my whole desktop and...
> :
> debtop:/home/steven# apt-get purge shotwell
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are
> no longer required:
> libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil python-crypto python-tagpy
> mesa-utils
> libepc-ui-1.0-2 python-pyasn1 tomboy
> python-twisted-core python-opengl
> libmtp8 rpm2cpio gcalctool gnome-nettool
> libepc-1.0-2 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
> libgnomepanel2.24-cil python-notify libglade2.0-cil
> baobab python-mako
> python-zope.interface tcptraceroute gucharmap
> python-clientform libdiscid0
> gnome-games cheese evolution-exchange
> libgconf2.0-cil python-twisted-web
> libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 python-aptdaemon-gtk
> gnome-codec-install
> python-aptdaemon gnome-cards-data totem-plugins
> rhythmbox gnome-screenshot
> python-gdata gedit liblircclient0 xdg-user-dirs-gtk
> libgexiv2-0
> python-gtksourceview2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf
> system-config-printer
> apache2.2-bin cheese-common python-gtkglext1
> libart2.0-cil
> epiphany-extensions librpmio1 libapr1 gnome-themes
> librpm1 seahorse
> rpm-common system-config-printer-udev
> remmina-plugin-rdp totem-common
> libaprutil1-ldap vinagre python-mechanize
> libgnome2.24-cil seahorse-plugins
> remmina-plugin-vnc xdg-user-dirs python-utidylib
> gnome-user-share libgalago3
> gedit-plugins totem-coherence python-configobj
> gconf-defaults-service
> guile-1.8-libs python-serial python-beautifulsoup
> gedit-common
> gnome-themes-extras libgmime2.4-cil software-center
> python-pam
> python-openssl libelf1 libcryptui0 libgdu-gtk0
> libtidy-0.99-0
> libmono-addins0.2-cil remmina-plugin-data
> python-markupsafe libgee2
> python-webkit rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
> gtk2-engines
> libgtksourceview2.0-common eog libgtksourceview2.0-0
> gnome-disk-utility
> gnome-backgrounds gnome-search-tool
> python-twisted-conch
> libfreerdp-plugins-standard python-louie
> python-feedparser vino aptdaemon
> python-nevow gnome-games-data media-player-info
> python-pysqlite2
> libapache2-mod-dnssd python-epsilon
> rhythmbox-plugins libgdata7
> libepc-common python-axiom python-bugbuddy
> python-coherence cups-pk-helper
> python-gdbm python-cups gnome-core libcheese-gtk18
> dmz-cursor-theme
> python-evolution python-pkg-resources gconf-editor
> gnome-system-tools
> hamster-applet gnuchess libfreerdp0 totem
> python-cupshelpers libssh-4
> libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libavahi-ui0 libaprutil1
> p7zip-full libgtkglext1 libnet1
> python-twisted-bin gstreamer0.10-tools freeglut3
> totem-mozilla
> python-httplib2 gnome-system-log file-roller
> python-rdflib
> libboost-python1.42.0 remmina libgdata-common
> sound-juicer libmusicbrainz3-6
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> shotwell*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> After this operation, 4,727 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
>
> I reinstalled gthumb and also gphoto2 (I was surprised this
> wasn't installed since on the shotwell website it supposedly
> needs this to work at all) messed up dependency
> perhaps??
>
> Sorry for the long message, but I figured with the enough
> information, someone would know what to do.
>
> I guess my main concern now is:
>
> 1) How do I get autoremove to back off!? I tried
> apt-get update and went to synaptic, reloaded and all of the
> above shows up in "autoremovable"
>
Ok I figured this one out. I did: apt-get install gnome and that seemed to do the trick. I did not want to do the keep all one, but this seemed to have worked.
Now if anyone could help me with the camera problem, that would be awesome!
> and a really appreciated bonus would be:
>
> 2) any suggestions on getting my camera to work with
> squeeze? It worked perfectly with Lenny.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
> --
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