Re: Huge autoremove list that looks crippling.
Debian removed iceweasel as far as I know.
apt-get remove xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard seemed to start it.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jo, 27 iun 13, 11:42:19, John Tate wrote:
>> I installed xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard with the Iceweasel beta, it
>> removed iceweasel, I have no idea why that happened maybe because it's
>> beta. When I installed iceweasel again I got a huge autoremove list
>> from hell itself.
>>
>> root@fekete:~# apt-get install iceweasel
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> ...
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> ...
>> This is rather nasty behaviour.
>
> Short: try installing task-gnome-desktop
>
> Long: you probably removed some metapackage when you first removed
> iceweasel, which is why this happens. You can either try to guess which
> metapackage and install it back or just go through the list with
> apt-mark.
>
> Note: the list would have probably been much bigger were it not for
> circular depends/recommends.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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