Am 06.06.2016 um 04:51 schrieb Allen James: > > Now, after reboot, Plasma does not start ("Plasma Cannot Start. All shell > packages missing."), I cannot connect to the internet, there is no krunner, > etc, > basically huge problems. Concerned about this because I had maintained my > laptop > on Debian Testing using KDE for almost 3 years without any major issue. Is > there > a way to restore what I previously had, or is there any advice regarding this?
Blindly running autoremove is not always a good idea. I run it from time to time but not always. If disk space is a reason for running it, get a bigger disk instead of damaging the kde ;) First i would reinstall all autoremoved packages especially the libkf5* ones and the sddm as mentioned before. A network connection can be created without kde, because there should always the good old text based shell to work with. I am on testing and be very carefull with updating, because I use this machine for may daily work and business. Damaging because of having the newest kde packages is here not an option. This means I read this mailinglist very carefully, especially the mails from martin. In addition I wait some days or some more to be sure that there is no huge bug killing the system. For bugreport information by installting I use apt-listbugs, apt-listchanges. If a bug comes up when the update runs, I discard the update and read the bugreport, to decide to update or not. And the last bastion is a full rsync backup for restoring the whole machine back to the last state before update. This may sound a bit pedantic and crazy, but I you are on testing, you do never know what shows up. And for less adrenalin use stable :) Good luck, -- Holger