On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 07:21:10 +0000 "Harley A.W. Lorenzo" <hl1...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > After digging around more, the service file isn't just the only thing > gone, the entire package has been removed as well. Honestly, I have > no idea what could have resulted in this package being removed > suddenly given the only circumstance that changed packages in my > system was installing XFCE and removing Cinnamon, something I know > that doesn't remove this package as I had done it on my desktop just > earlier before the laptop. > By 'removing' Cinnamon, do you mean that you uninstalled it? If so, Network Manager was probably a dependency of it, and was uninstalled at the same time. NM is a Gnome application. It is not a dependency of Xfce, nor, I assume, of other 'lightweight' desktop environments. I run Xfce, and I explicitly install NM on my portables, I have no use for it on a desktop machine. You will probably find other Gnome applications missing, such as gedit. In the absence of NM, there needs to be a file /etc/network/interfaces containing enough information to bring up the network interfaces. With NM installed from new, this will probably exist but contain only localhost, as any interface named here will not be touched by NM. Besides NM itself, you may need some plug-ins for specialist interfaces, such as for OpenVPN. You'll probably also want the Gnome GUIs for it and any plug-ins. -- Joe
