I noticed "xscreensaver" comes up when the monitor times out, but only after the kscreensaver that I have set up with "Configure Desktop" in KUBUNTU. I had guessed that the xscreensaver was redundant; for gnome or xfce and I would simply remove it and it's data and see what happens.
Why the ... does Adept then remove all manner of packages; that seem to be unrelated? It removed Nvidia-glx (for example)! About 20 major components.
How do I easily get them back? What's going on? Where did I go wrong?
I'm not a rank newbie (and I'm also not beyond an error, either). So what did I do bad?
How can I list what was just (before I stopped it) removed?
I'm sure I can't reboot successfully now; until I reverse this.
This is a critical problem for me.
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I could not install kubuntu-desktop (now using aptitude and hoping this would install what was removed) but I could not due to a "lock" of the stopped adept. Finally "killall dpgk" and the requested "dpkg --configure -a" alowed me to do it.
Now it looks like it would install some things but WHY are these packages "unused". I use them! Please help!
I said no and now I'm dead in the water. (Not a happy camper here) I'm trying to be civil, if you can't tell.
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Now I've said yes. I can only guess, aptitude (I actually used Adept at first) thinks it should do this when I remove xscrensaver. xscreensaver is not part of Kubuntu base?
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I've reinstalled every basic component I can think of and X still will not start. I'm getting errors about not finding the mouse and keyboard modules. I have reinstalled xorg, nv video, kdm, tried -phigh with xorg and nothing works.
What do I do now? What's missing and how do I tell?
Should I try ti reinstall everything that is installed on a base Kubuntu system. A long string of packages? I have of course tried oi reinstall kubuntu-desktop and it say all is well. It isn't.
Why the ... does Adept then remove all manner of packages; that seem to be unrelated? It removed Nvidia-glx (for example)! About 20 major components.
How do I easily get them back? What's going on? Where did I go wrong?
I'm not a rank newbie (and I'm also not beyond an error, either). So what did I do bad?
How can I list what was just (before I stopped it) removed?
I'm sure I can't reboot successfully now; until I reverse this.
This is a critical problem for me.
---
I could not install kubuntu-desktop (now using aptitude and hoping this would install what was removed) but I could not due to a "lock" of the stopped adept. Finally "killall dpgk" and the requested "dpkg --configure -a" alowed me to do it.
Now it looks like it would install some things but WHY are these packages "unused". I use them! Please help!
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugins anthy apport-gtk file-roller gnome-terminal-data gnumeric-common gnumeric-gtk
gqview gtk2-engines-xfce gxine human-cursors-theme human-icon-theme human-theme libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a libaiksaurus-1.2-data
libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libanthy0 libchewing3 libchewing3-data libdb4.3++c2 libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgoffice-0-common
libgoffice-gtk-0-3 libgtkmathview0c2a libots0 libt1-5 libwpd-stream8c2a mousepad onboard orage python-exo python-gtkhtml2
python-virtkey scim-anthy scim-chewing scim-hangul scim-pinyin thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin ubuntu-artwork xarchiver
xfburn xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-dict-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-notes-plugin
xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-utils xfce4-verve-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin xfdesktop4 xfprint4 xubuntu-artwork-usplash
xubuntu-default-settings xubuntu-docs
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
adept-batch adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater brltty ncompress p7zip-full xorg zoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
adept adept-batch adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater akregator ark brltty kubuntu-default-settings
kubuntu-desktop language-selector-qt ncompress p7zip-full xorg zoo
0 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 74 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8872kB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugins anthy apport-gtk file-roller gnome-terminal-data gnumeric-common gnumeric-gtk
gqview gtk2-engines-xfce gxine human-cursors-theme human-icon-theme human-theme libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a libaiksaurus-1.2-data
libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a libanthy0 libchewing3 libchewing3-data libdb4.3++c2 libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgoffice-0-common
libgoffice-gtk-0-3 libgtkmathview0c2a libots0 libt1-5 libwpd-stream8c2a mousepad onboard orage python-exo python-gtkhtml2
python-virtkey scim-anthy scim-chewing scim-hangul scim-pinyin thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin ubuntu-artwork xarchiver
xfburn xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-dict-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-notes-plugin
xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-utils xfce4-verve-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin xfdesktop4 xfprint4 xubuntu-artwork-usplash
xubuntu-default-settings xubuntu-docs
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
adept-batch adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater brltty ncompress p7zip-full xorg zoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
adept adept-batch adept-common adept-installer adept-manager adept-notifier adept-updater akregator ark brltty kubuntu-default-settings
kubuntu-desktop language-selector-qt ncompress p7zip-full xorg zoo
0 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 74 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8872kB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
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Now I've said yes. I can only guess, aptitude (I actually used Adept at first) thinks it should do this when I remove xscrensaver. xscreensaver is not part of Kubuntu base?
---
I've reinstalled every basic component I can think of and X still will not start. I'm getting errors about not finding the mouse and keyboard modules. I have reinstalled xorg, nv video, kdm, tried -phigh with xorg and nothing works.
What do I do now? What's missing and how do I tell?
Should I try ti reinstall everything that is installed on a base Kubuntu system. A long string of packages? I have of course tried oi reinstall kubuntu-desktop and it say all is well. It isn't.
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