Fun with linux!

[Relative]

So today I trying to set up hollow's new client that is currently in the development release stage (alpha-ish). I thought I would be a great idea to upgrade my python packages from 2.4 to 2.5 to increase compatibility, so I sudo away 2.4 in order to perform a clean install of 2.5. Unbeknown to me at the time the majority of my applications, the desktop environment, and even the graphical terminal all have python 2.4 as a dependency under Ubuntu. As a result everything was uninstalled until all I had left was a command line. Currently my CD/DVD-+RW drive is buzzing away. In conclusion, snip

[Kloot]

The dependencies in a default Ubuntu install are altogether weird.

[CompWiz]

[diggz2k]

use apt-get command to get it all back. Exactly how I don't know.

[Relative]

use apt-get command to get it all back. Exactly how I don't know.

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sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

However, even after all that not everything was fixed, most of my apps were still gone, settings were reset, etc... Quicker to do a full 2 hour reinstall than a one day panic.

Edit:

Done! Fresh install, set to my preferences and nothing lost. 9:30 PM GMT

[Radja]

apt (and emerge, yum, etc) erase older packages prior to installing a new version, the way you did is just good for getting the problems you got


i dont know about ubuntu, but python is not a critical package, it should not cause such problems to erase it, get a better distr...... must not flame, must not flame ><

[superppl]

It's a great thing we can stick our home folders on a separate partition.