[lug] Recovering from massive Ubuntu mess

[D. Stimits]

> On 11/26/2020 11:03 AM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:04:28 -0700
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> > 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, 

Just an afterthought, sometimes dependencies can be fixed with:
sudo apt --fix-broken install

> > because of how
> > badly I got hosed the last time.
> 
> I decided to take off and nuke it from orbit. Well, at least, this being my
> 4th install of Ubuntu 20.4, with fresh memories, I was able to blaze
> through things very quickly. Of course, it helps that my /home is on a
> different partition, so I didn't lose any preferences stored there. And,
> I've been running a nightly rdiff-backup for over a year, so it was easy to
> look back and see what changes I'd made. Digging back in the BLUG list
> jogged my memory too.
> 
> I also was smart enough this time to make another partition on the system
> disk so that I can dual-boot something else later, once I decide whether to
> play with Arch, or Void (the current leading contenders, in my mind).
> 
> Now, 24 hrs. later, I can return to getting a Samba share available, which
> is what started me on this side-trip. Well, once I get chirp going in
> flatpak, and restore my crontabs - I think that's all that's left.
> 
> The list of stuff apt tells me I can get rid of with autoremove is already
> quite large. I think I'll look for a way to disable that operation, as it's
> as dangerous as rm -rf /* for practical purposes.
> 
> -- 
> All operating systems suck, but Linux just sucks less
>  - Linus Torvalds
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