(not really solved) Re: (SOLVED) Re: Gnome control center crashes

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, den 04.10.2019, 12:36 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.10.2019, 01:42 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 02.10.2019, 21:42 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 19:46, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I need to completely deinstall what's in that PPA, and
> > > > downgrade
> > > > libglib2.0 to the version in Ubuntu 18.04.3. That should solve
> > > > my
> > > > gnome-control-center crash issue.
> > > 
> > > sudo ppa-purge ppa:samvh/evolution-bionic-bp
> > 
> > This wants to downgrade a lot of things, not just what is listed on
> > the
> > PPA's page, in the "Overview of published packages". And then,
> > there
> > comes a long message about broken dependencies, and of actions to
> > resolve those dependencies. I've canceled the operation.
> > 
> > Possibly ppa-purge wants to do the right thing, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > That's the page of that PPA:
> > https://launchpad.net/~samvh/+archive/ubuntu/evolution-bionic-bp
> 
> I've attached the output of ppa-purge.
> 
> And, I have some "-dev" packages in the affected packages, namely:
> 
> evolution-data-server-dev
> libblkid-dev 
> libglib2.0-dev 
> libglib2.0-dev-bin
> libmount-dev 
> libselinux1-dev
> libsepol1-dev 
> uuid-dev
> 
> I think I got them when I did a quick attempt to build evolution from
> the source (didn't work, of course). I guess, I did "apt-get build-
> dep
> evolution".
> 
> I think, it should be safe to remove these, but im somewhat uneasy...

I wasn't aware that development packages have dependencies too. It's
NOT easy to remove them. Sorry.

Volker