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Re: [LUG] Oh crud, apt just sabotaged me!

 

Rhia Knowles wrote:
> On 27 February 2011 14:13, Michael Dorrington
> <michael.dorrington@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Rhia Knowles wrote:
>>> I have been prompted to to an apt-get autoremove by apt for a while,
>>> and ignored it... today I finally thought, ok, if it stops you
>>> moaning...
>>>
>>> Its removed a crud load of stuff I clearly need, since now I cant
>>> connect to my wlan, and Networkmanager was removed.
>>>
>>> I managed to get back online via ethernet with ifup, reinstalled
>>> network manager, it sees my wlan, 'connects' to my Wlan, but no
>>> internet surfing is happening until i reconnect the ethernet.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me figure out wtf the bloody stupid thing has removed
>>> and undo the damage?
>> /var/log/apt/term.log
>>
>> Mike.
>>
> Thanks Mike, thats sorted it.

You can pay me back by running a SFD event this year.
Saturday, September 17th
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
http://ffsuk.org.uk/sfd/

> Never again....

I don't trust autoremove.

Mike.

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