Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread Martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > Pleasure. Nice to know someone else does that too. I am happy to report that the recording ended so I rebooted with fingers crossed. The messages from the boot confirmed that network-manager started and reported okay and the interface came up with it's assigned IP a

Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Apr 2017 at 15:58:26 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > /var/log/apt/history.log should contain something like > > > > Start-Date: 2017-03-02 06:48:56 > > Commandline: apt-get autoremove > > > > followed by the package

Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread Martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > /var/log/apt/history.log should contain something like > > Start-Date: 2017-03-02 06:48:56 > Commandline: apt-get autoremove > > followed by the packages removed. If, during the removal, some service > was stopped, or whatever, you might see some o

Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Apr 2017 at 13:12:58 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After using apt-get autoremove on a jessie installation, > the system is mostly working but it now fails to initialize eth0 > so it comes up with no network address. I looked back through the > 8 syslog files it

Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 11 Apr 2017 at 13:12:58 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > After using apt-get autoremove on a jessie installation, > the system is mostly working but it now fails to initialize eth0 > so it comes up with no network address. I looked back through the > 8 syslog files it

Re: Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread Hans
Hi Martin, can you get, what packages where deinstalled by autoremove? Should be somewhere in the logs. Best Hans

Looks like apt-get autoremove Removed Too Much.

2017-04-11 Thread Martin McCormick
After using apt-get autoremove on a jessie installation, the system is mostly working but it now fails to initialize eth0 so it comes up with no network address. I looked back through the 8 syslog files it had and, of course, there doesn't happen to be a syslog taken of a boot or I

Re: Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-03 Thread John Hasler
I suspect that you will get more useful answers on the developers' list for Apt: https://lists.debian.org/deity/ -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140402_180526, Jeff Bai wrote: > Hi, > >I am not exactly using Debian but building another distribution with > DPKG and APT as basic package management suite. But we just found that, > when doing apt-get autoremove, there was not a warning or extra notice for > remov

Re: Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:05:26PM -0600, Jeff Bai wrote: >I am not exactly using Debian but building another distribution with > DPKG and APT as basic package management suite. But we just found that, > when doing apt-get autoremove, there was not a warning or extra notice for &

Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-02 Thread Jeff Bai
Hi, I am not exactly using Debian but building another distribution with DPKG and APT as basic package management suite. But we just found that, when doing apt-get autoremove, there was not a warning or extra notice for removing packages which sometimes leads to a broken system... Well, I

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-25 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Gábor. You wrote: > I run the autoremove and I reinstall packages which I need again so > this question not question now. Or You could simply mark them as being manually installed. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2012/9/22 Andrei POPESCU : > On Sb, 22 sep 12, 10:45:40, Wayne Topa wrote: >> The apt-get man page describes that quite well. >> >> Please use the tools installed on your system. >> >> man apt-get >> autoremove >> autoremove is used to remove pac

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 sep 12, 12:41:34, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > "It's not going to destroy your system[2], but I wouldn't run the > sequence > > apt-get autoremove && apt-get clean > > from a cronjob ;)" -> So I should leave these packages there

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 sep 12, 10:45:40, Wayne Topa wrote: > The apt-get man page describes that quite well. > > Please use the tools installed on your system. > > man apt-get > autoremove > autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically > installed to satisfy depende

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/22/2012 04:38 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hi, When I run the command "apt-get autoremove" it wants to remove 115 packages, for example "network-manager, network-manager-gnome, software-center, update-manager-core, update-manager-gnome, update-notifier, update-notifier-

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2012/9/22 Andrei POPESCU : > On Sb, 22 sep 12, 10:38:47, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I run the command "apt-get autoremove" it wants to remove 115 >> packages, for example "network-manager, network-manager-gnome, >> software-center, upda

Re: Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 sep 12, 10:38:47, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > When I run the command "apt-get autoremove" it wants to remove 115 > packages, for example "network-manager, network-manager-gnome, > software-center, update-manager-core, update-manager-gnome, > upd

Apt-get autoremove question

2012-09-22 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, When I run the command "apt-get autoremove" it wants to remove 115 packages, for example "network-manager, network-manager-gnome, software-center, update-manager-core, update-manager-gnome, update-notifier, update-notifier-common". But I don't want to remove these

Re: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.

2011-04-16 Thread Steven Sciame
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Why would you want to run "apt-get autoremove"? My > understanding is that > it's optional. > > > -- > Bob Holtzman > Key ID: 8D549279 > "If you think you're getting free lunch, > check

Re: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.

2011-04-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
ng dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: snip.. > python-httplib2 gnome-system-log file-roller python-rdflib > libboost-python1.42.0 remmina libgdata

Re: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.

2011-04-16 Thread Steven Sciame
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Steven Sciame wrote: > From: Steven Sciame > Subject: How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire > desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but > not in Squeeze. > To: "Debian User" &

How do I get apt-get autoremove to NOT insist on removing my entire desktop? Plus possible help with digital camera that worked with Lenny, but not in Squeeze.

2011-04-16 Thread Steven Sciame
amer0.10-tools freeglut3 totem-mozilla python-httplib2 gnome-system-log file-roller python-rdflib libboost-python1.42.0 remmina libgdata-common sound-juicer libmusicbrainz3-6 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: shotwell* 0 upgraded, 0 newly i

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
have been avoided with only a week of research; and, do the world a favor: don't get married and raise any children. >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: >You should have run (apt-get install $pkgs_I_use) before running (apt-get >autoremove). Thanks for this useful tip, I've added it to

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 October 2009 10:50:42 Alexey Salmin wrote: > Why are you so angry? I'm not. Nor was I when I was writing my initial reply. > What do you suppose to hear from a person who at > first got message that some packages are "no longer required" and got > his system broken after following t

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Legg
Yep, Please accept my apologies for cc'ing your message to the list, but you provided a good undo for my problem. Others browsing the archives/google should see this if running apt-get autoremove disables the GUI. # apt-get install gnome brought back the essentials I needed back. Wha

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Alexey Salmin
Why are you so angry? What do you suppose to hear from a person who at first got message that some packages are "no longer required" and got his system broken after following that advice. I understand that in stable in 99% times it's caused by user's fault: he've accidentally removed kde metapackag

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I installed the AMD64 Debian on my AMD64 box (emachines T6520 by the > way). Ever since the time I installed it, everytime I ran apt-get, > I was given a couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer > needed and could be removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk >

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
needed and could be > removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk space would be freed. > Which exactly was this message, and which apt-get command were you running and you saw this message? My advice is to use aptitude which makes a better dependency resolving. Anyway, about your problem

Re: apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
en a > couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer needed and could be > removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk space would be freed. This just means that no other piece of installed software depends on the package anymore (and the package was originally brought in as a

apt-get autoremove

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Legg
t-get autoremove and 512M of disk space would be freed. After a couple weeks, I got tired of seeing this message and I ran apt-get autoremove. And so I rebooted and here I am using links to compose this e-mail because X become broken. Actually, X does work, but it seems every window manager is broke