Package: phpmyadmin
Well I hit RET on the usual aptitude "safe-upgrade" without reading:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libjs-sphinxdoc{pu} (D: phpmyadmin) phpmyadmin{pu}
The following packages will be upgraded:
aptitude aptitude-common (aptitude D: aptitude-common) aptitude-doc-en
dbconfig-common
dbconfig-mysql gnupg-agent gnupg2 libapache2-mod-php
libapache2-mod-php7.0 (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php)
libcupsfilters1 libfreetype6
libgraphite2-3 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0 libpng12-0
libssl1.0.2 (openssl D: libssl1.0.2) libxml-xpath-perl openssl php php-cli
php-common (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php D: php7.0-common D:
php-common, php7.0P<- php D: php7.0-common D: php-common, php7.0-cliP<- php-cli
D: php7.0-common D: php-common, php7.0-jsonP<- php-json D: php-common,
php7.0-mcryptP<- php-mcrypt D: php-common)
php-json php-mcrypt php-mysql php-pear php7.0 (php7.0P<- php) php7.0-cgi
php7.0-cli (php7.0-cliP<- php-cli)
php7.0-common (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php D: php7.0-common,
php7.0P<- php D: php7.0-common, php7.0-cliP<- php-cli D: php7.0-common,
php7.0-jsonP<- php-json D: php7.0-common, php7.0-mcryptP<- php-mcrypt D:
php7.0-common)
php7.0-json (php7.0-jsonP<- php-json) php7.0-mcrypt (php7.0-mcryptP<-
php-mcrypt) php7.0-mysql
php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
dirmngr (R: gnupg2)
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base (R: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0, R:
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, R: libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, S: libgstreamer1.0-0)
libparse-debianchangelog-perl (R: aptitude)
And next thing you know I am looking at:
Since you are removing phpmyadmin, it's possible that you no longer want the
underlying database and │
│ the privileges for the user associated with this package.
│
│
│
│ Please choose whether database removal and privilege revocation should be
handled with dbconfig-common. │
│
│
│ If you choose this option, dbconfig-common will check if phpmyadmin provided
scripts and database │
│ commands to undo package specific operations and run them if they exist.
Then it will ask if you want │
│ to delete the phpmyadmin database and revoke the standard privileges for the
user of phpmyadmin. If you │
│ don't want any of this, or if you want to handle this manually, you should
refuse this option. │
│
│
│ Deconfigure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?
│
│
│
│ <Yes> <No>
Well from past experience with aptitude, ^C will not allow one to abort
here.
So I chose <No> and later reinstall phpmyadmin but of course things are
still ruined.
So please add
<Yes> <No> <Do Not Remove phpmyadmin>
