DEB program package tpb requires de-installation of ubuntu-desktop

[NoOp]

On 08/26/2008 06:26 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> It's quite safe to use your system without ubuntu-desktop (IMO), just
>> remember to reinstall it before you do a distro upgrade (Gutsy to Hardy
>> etc):
>> 
>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
> 
> will that work if it isn't already installed?  (the aptitude
> equivalent "aptitude reinstall" doesn't).
> 
> Anyway, last time I did an upgrade it told me it was reinstalling the
> desktop package...
> 

Sure. If it's not installed it will install it. If it's installed it
will reinstall it & on occasion catch issues in the process if it's been
uninstalled, reinstalled, etc., previously.

I'm upgrading my last primary machine now & before I started I made sure
that: 1) the ubuntu-desktop  was reinstalled, and 2) everything was
updated, upgraded beforehand. I waited on this machine before the -14
kernel issue was fixed... Now, that doesn't mean that I won't come back
in a few hours ranting and raving about having to fix bits that were
messed up during the upgrade :-) But that last is expected as that
machine has gone from dapper to feisty to gutsy and has so much stuff
loaded on it that is non-Ubuntu that I'd be very surprised if it goes
smoothly.