R: cinnamon-screensaver

[Nicola Fusco]

Hi Jeffrey,

I’m on Mint 20.2, and I’ve used the application manager to remove the screensaver;
I’ve answered “yes” to the question if I wanted to remove some other “not required”
Packages (I don’t remember the names): do you suggest that it is enough to install again
“bulky” and “python3-magic”, to solve the issue?
Anyway, when I installed again cinnamon-screensaver, why those packages were not
Installed again?
Moreover, I’ve also to install the other packages you mention: cinnamon, cinnamon-dbg,
mint-meta-cinnamon?

Thanks!


Inviato da Posta per Windows

Da: Jeffrey Walton
Inviato: giovedì 16 settembre 2021 01:50
A: Nicola Fusco
Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss
Oggetto: Re: cinnamon-screensaver

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 7:01 PM Nicola Fusco <nike.62 at virgilio.it> wrote:
>
> I have installed another screensaver, so I had the good idea to remove
> the old one, and now I cannot enter the graphic environment anymore.
>
> I tried to install the cinnamon-screensaver again, but with no luck:
> perhaps some others required packages have been removed with the
> screensaver, which I have to install again? and which are these packages?

Here's what I am seeing for Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS:

$ sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-screensaver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cinnamon-common cjs gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0
  gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cmenu-3.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0
  gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
  gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 gir1.2-nemo-3.0 gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0
  gir1.2-xapp-1.0 gir1.2-xkl-1.0 iso-flags-png-320x240 libcaribou-common
  libcaribou0 libcjs0 libcscreensaver0 libkeybinder-3.0-0 libmozjs-52-0
  libtimezonemap-data libtimezonemap1 metacity-common python3-pampy
  python3-psutil python3-pyinotify python3-setproctitle python3-xapp
  python3-xlib
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cinnamon cinnamon-core cinnamon-desktop-environment cinnamon-screensaver
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,494 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.

Here is what I am seeing on Linux Mint 20.2:

$ sudo apt-get remove cinnamon-screensaver
[sudo] password for jwalton:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bulky python3-magic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cinnamon cinnamon-dbg cinnamon-screensaver mint-meta-cinnamon
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,389 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.

Jeff

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