Hi Bob,

(every time I see your avatar, it makes me want to go back and finish up my
pilot's license. :) )

Thanks for your advice. I think the package manager got confused, but I was
able to apt-get install kde-full. It added about half a dozen packages, but
it also brought the ones i was having issues with back into the fold.

Thanks for pushing me in the right direction.

--b


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:

> Brad Alexander wrote:
> > Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically
> installed
> > and are no longer required:
> >   akonadiconsole akregator amor ark avogadro-data blinken blogilo bomber
> > bovo
> >   cantor cervisia crda cvs cvsservice dnsmasq-base dragonplayer easy-rsa
> > gnugo
> >  ...snip...
> >   step svgpart sweeper texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
> >   translate-toolkit umbrello usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data valgrind
> >   valgrind-dbg vpnc wireless-regdb wpasupplicant
> > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>
> Did you install these with KDE and then along the way remove the kde
> meta package?
>
> > I am deathly afraid to apt-get autoremove, because I see a lot of things
> in
> > there that I use, such as akregator, gwenview, kwalletmanager,
>
> Then in that case mark them as being something you want to keep
> around.  The easy way is simply to fire the install command on them.
>
>   apt-get install akregator gwenview kwalletmanager ...
>
> That will say that they are up to date and then also say that it is
> marking them as manually installed.
>
> There is also the 'apt-mark manual foo' command to mark foo as
> manually installed too.  Either way is fine.  For this apt-get install
> is one less thing to remember.
>
> > So is this for real, and if I apt-get autoremove, it will gut my
> > system, or am I missing some detail and it's all good?
>
> As currently known if you run apt-get autoeremove it will remove those
> packages.  But if you are using those packages then don't do that. :-)
> Instead simply mark them as being manually installed.
>
> Mark a few of the top level ones and then run autoremove, answer 'n'o.
> Then pick another top level package and mark it.  Then run autoremove
> again and answer 'n'o again.  Repeat until you have marked to keep all
> of the packages that you want to keep.  Almost certainly along the way
> you will find some package that you don't want and will decide to let
> it go.  The automatically installed list is just a helper to help you
> maintain your system.  But it is a simple thing and doesn't know about
> all cases such as the removal of a kde meta package.  You are
> certainly encouraged to use judgement and drive it the way you want.
>
> Bob
>

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