On 16/11/16 07:38, Ric Moore wrote: > Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes > everything audio/video and the kitchen sink??
My theory goes something like this. You have a desktop environment package installed - something like gnome, or in your case perhaps xubuntu-desktop (suggesting you're asking about Ubuntu on a Debian list, but never mind). That depends on a lot of applications which have been deemed useful for such a desktop. Some of them (eg timidity) depend on this jack package, so if you remove jack, timidity has to go, and therefore the desktop package has to go. But because all those applications were only installed because the desktop depended on them (ie you didn't install them manually), they're marked as automatic. So when you remove the desktop, aptitude at least assumes that you probably no longer want all those other packages either, and removes them. The solution, then, might be to 'aptitude unmark auto' all the packages that are required by xubuntu-desktop which you still want, so that you can remove the xubuntu-desktop package without having any other effect. Of course, if any of the packages you want directly depend on libjack-blah, you have a problem. xubuntu-desktop might not be the actual (or only) culprit, of course. And I'm not sure how non-aptitude package managers behave in this regard. Richard
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