Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Marco Paolieri
I got caught in a broken install during a dist-upgrade in sid (I knew the risks, no complaints). Is it possible to remove (from the CTRL-ALT-F1 login terminal) all KDE related packages and then reinstall KDE? (I suspect the problem is there.) I include my output in case it's useful to describe the

Re: Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:18:54PM -0700, Marco Paolieri wrote: > dpkg: errore nell'elaborare l'archivio > /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5ldap-data_19.08.3-1_all.deb (--unpack): > tentata sovrascrittura di "/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libkldap5.mo" > presente anche nel pacchetto libkf5ldap5:am

Re: Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Marco Paolieri
Thank you very much for the suggestion... What I get is: $ LANG=C sudo apt-get remove libkf5ldap5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependenci

Re: Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Marco Paolieri
Is there a different way I should remove the libkf5ldap5 package? On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:03 PM Marco Paolieri wrote: > Thank you very much for the suggestion... What I get is: > > $ LANG=C sudo apt-get remove libkf5ldap5 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading st

Re: Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:05:02PM -0700, Marco Paolieri wrote: > Is there a different way I should remove the libkf5ldap5 package? Try dpkg -r. Though if something depends on it, and it probably does, you'll need either ask dpkg to ignore deps, or remove all deps too. > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11

Re: Removing and reinstalling all KDE packages

2020-05-18 Thread Marco Paolieri
Thanks! I kept adding the dependencies to the command line, and this worked: $ LANG=C sudo dpkg -r libkf5ldap5 libkf5libkdepim-plugins libkf5libkdepim-plugins libkf5mailimporter5 libkf5libkdepim-plugins kontact libkf5mailimporterakonadi5 Package libkf5libkdepim-plugins:amd64 listed more than o