[lug] Recovering from massive Ubuntu mess

[D. Stimits]

> On 11/25/2020 4:04 PM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi. Hey, guess what?
> 
> Yet again, Ubuntu has really screwed me over. Short version is I used the
> tasksel program to try to set up Samba. Big mistake.
> 
> Apparently, tasksel "helps" by running apt autoremove. The 1st thing in
> it's display was a taskbar removing a bunch of stuff. I've been avoiding
> doing autoremove, despite apt telling me I could do so, because of how
> badly I got hosed the last time.
Is there a log listing what apt removed? Maybe just try to install that all with one copy and paste. If one blocks, then you have found something new to remove.

> 
> Anyways, lots of stuff is gone, and I'm trying to get things back. I dare
> not reboot, because some things are working now only becasuse they were
> open, so I guess the reference count is keeping the files from being
> deleted.
> 
> I'm at the point of trying get system-config-printer installed. It's a long
> lineup of apt not installing, due to broken packages, but I think I'm at
> the bottom now, but I can't go anywhere. The apt --force-yes is deprecated,
> and it tell me to use one of the "allow" options, so here's what that looks
> like. So, what can I do here?
> 
> # apt-get install --allow-change-held-packages gir1.2-freedesktop
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  gir1.2-freedesktop : Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 (= 1.64.0-2) but
> 1.64.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems,
> you have held broken packages.
> 
> # dpkg --list gir1.2-glib-2.0
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name
>          Version                Architecture Description
> +++-=====================-======================-============-=====================================================
> ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0:amd64 1.64.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1 amd64        Introspection
> data for GLib, GObject, Gio and GModule
> 
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