apt-get remove libglib removed all of kde

[karyo]

Hy guy,

Something funny & irritating happend today,
I was trying to reinstall glib (caveman style) so i typed : "apt-get remove libglib2.0-0" , then (the sad part) apt-get went ahead and removed kdm,kate,konsole,etc basically all kde related packages.
After a reboot in tty1 i noticed that fdisk, dhcp-client were missing, and who knows what else is gone )
I gues all that`s left to do now is a fresh install ... that will solve it .

But, for knowledge`s sake , does anyone have an explanation for this?

thanks

[Rog131]

Re: apt-get remove libglib removed all of kde

But, for knowledge`s sake , does anyone have an explanation for this?

Explanation of what ?

glib (apt-cache show libglib2.0-0):

Description: The GLib library of C routines
GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such
as trees, hashes, lists, and strings. It is a useful general-purpose
C library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP, and GNOME.
.
This package contains the shared libraries.

and a pick (apt-cache show kdebase-workspace-bin):

Depends:.. libglib2.0-0...

You removed a library of useful C routines and many programs are depending of them, also the KDE programs.


A simulation:

sudo apt-get -s remove libglib2.0-0

The following packages will be REMOVED:
acpi-support acpid adobe-flashplugin...
...xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xterm xtrans-dev yarock
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) hostname upstart (due to hostname)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 784 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Earlier > Topic: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Removed packages from the dpkg log:

grep remove /var/log/dpkg.log

I gues all that`s left to do now is a fresh install ...

Probably the fastest (/easiest) way.