[lubuntu-devel] Apt removing "QT" packages???

[Fritz Hudnut]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 10:38 AM Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ran an apt dist-upgrade this am in Lu Oracular and it showed:
> >
> > [CODE]REMOVING:
> >   libpoppler-qt6-3          libqt6waylandeglclienthwintegration6
> >   libqt6dbus6t64            libqt6waylandeglcompositorhwintegration6
> >   libqt6gui6t64             libqt6widgets6t64
> >   libqt6network6t64         libqt6wlshellintegration6
> >   libqt6opengl6t64          qpdfview
> >   libqt6printsupport6t64    qpdfview-djvu-plugin
> >   libqt6qml6                qpdfview-pdf-poppler-plugin
> >   libqt6qmlmodels6          qpdfview-ps-plugin
> >   libqt6quick6              qpdfview-translations
> >   libqt6sql6t64             qt6-gtk-platformtheme
> >   libqt6svg6                qt6-qpa-plugins
> >   libqt6waylandclient6      qt6-wayland
> >   libqt6waylandcompositor6                      [/CODE]
> >
> > For removing 25 packages or so . . . decided against it because last
> week ran it in another LXQT DE system and it removed the DE GUI . . . .
> Had to get to TTY and install MATE to get it back online.
> >
> > Similar issue, or this is "All good"???
>
> This looks pretty normal if you upgraded from Mantic to Noble. The Qt
> packages you see are Qt6, *not* Qt5. While LXQt and many other
> applications in Lubuntu 24.04 are powered by Qt5, we intentionally
> avoided shipping Qt6 apps with Lubuntu 24.04 since we couldn't theme
> them properly yet. qpdfview in Ubuntu 24.04 uses Qt6, so that's
> probably what pulled in the Qt6 libraries. We replaced qpdfview with
> Okular in Lubuntu 24.04, and you can see that it's slated for removal
> in the list above. It's likely that this was the last/only package on
> your system that used Qt6, and now that it's leaving, Qt6 can leave
> with it.
>
> That being said, always have backups of your important data, just in case.
> :)
>
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OK, thanks for the reply . . . this is for the newest upgrade noble to
oracular . . . .  I'll try to run it through when I get a minute to spare.

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