Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

[bienchen]

Hi there,

I really need some help, now. I somewhat accidantely uninstalled most of the KDE packages. Can anybody provide me a list what's in the standard installation? Telling me which applications are in which of the menu entries would also be of great help. E.g. "Development" now only carries Emacs, "Graphics" has only Gimp left and so on...

regards,

bienchen

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Can't somebody just boot the Kubuntu install-disc and post like one sub menu here? This would really help a lot. I'm on vacation, internet only per usb-stick, no install disc with me...and I'm afraid, KDE won't start the next time I boot.

regards,

bienchen

[Rog131]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

The Linux is keeping logs. The Ubuntu is Debian based so the package management logs are in the dpkg log.

(earlier> Topic: Update Logs)

Checking installed/updated/removed packages from the dpkg log:

Recent status log:

grep "status installed" /var/log/dpkg.log

grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log

grep remove /var/log/dpkg.log

A bit older dpkg log:

grep "status installed" /var/log/dpkg.log.1

grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log.1

grep remove /var/log/dpkg.log.1

The oldest logs - rotated dpkg logs (packed): dpkg.log.2.gz, dpkg.log.3.gz...


So - looking the removed packages from the dpkg log:

grep remove /var/log/dpkg.log

If you were removing with the Synaptic package manager then you could look the Synaptic > File > History. Synaptic history files are saved in /root/.synaptic/log/


The "Kubuntu" is the (meta)package kubuntu-desktop.

Here you will find list of depending/recommending packages > kubuntu-desktop

This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu desktop system. Installing this package will include the default Kubuntu Plasma Desktop installation.

The K-Menu is dynamic > kde-menu:

KSycoca

KSycoca caches menu structure and information about all available applications. You can rebuild the database with kbuildsycoca4. The database which is built lives in /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}/ksycoca. It is automatically updated by KDED, checked during KDE login, and KDED watches for changes while logged in.

The complete iso image package list can be found from the Kubuntu download page. > Kubuntu.org > .... > Kubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx):

> kubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.list
> kubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.list

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Well, this is the answer I have seeked! Provides the simplest solution whatsoever!

Of course, in the meantime things have gotten worse...my mobile connection failed, therefore I moved to a cafe providing wireless access...noticed, that my MacBook does NOT recover from sleep mode in Kubuntu and now I got no working X, uninstalled networkmanager...but I found the iso image of the install disc on another partition!

Plan is:

- Mount iso
- Register mounted iso as source
- reinstall stuff...

I don't know how to do this, but I'm sure the internet does!

kind regards,

bienchen

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Now I reinstalled something, but the X server still won't start :-(

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

OK, it looks like reinstalling following my former plans did not work.
I mounted the iso image to a directory, placed the dir in /etc/apt/sources.list like this:

deb file:/dir lucid main restrictions

and then I ran apt-get update but got messages like
IGN file ... lucid
IGN file ... main
IGN file ... restrictions

Sorry I could not post the real output but in Linux I have no internet at this moment and no chance to copy stuff to my hfs partitions.

regards,

bienchen

[sithlord48]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

if you can copy the .deb files on to your machine then you can install them w/ dpkg -i (its not gonna be fun) it would be much ezer if you can add cd as a repo source, or get a net connection , can you post your sources.list file and the out put you get when you try to upgrade..

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Well, I can copy the sources.list, but this takes a while. I think I'll try getting an empty CD...I have a USB disk, would that be of any help?

regards,

bienchen

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

OK, I probably got the last CD in this place. Burning, then we'll see...

[Vistaus]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

You have a CD now, but no worries, you can also copy Kubuntu onto an USB Disk

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

CD is burned, but...is it right that there are only 35 deb packages stored on it? How am I supposed to reanimate my Kubuntu from this?

I think, I start searching the roughly 30 package I've lost and install them via dpkg...

regards,

bienchen

[Vistaus]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Just add the CD to your software sources

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Did that (apt-cdrom add) followed by "apt-get update" and then I tried "apt-get install" over all missing packages.

Still no success.

[sithlord48]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

do u still have the cd you installed from ? you should be able to use that as a repo source to install the packages you removed.(see rog131's post above on where to find that).

[bienchen]

Re: Help! Deinstalled most KDE packages...

Well, I'm back home again and have internet via cable again. I think I reinstalled all package but now I can't log in from kdm. After entering my pw, it just shows a konsole for a second and goes back to the login screen. Running KDE by startx from console login works.

What I did inbetween: Booted into the live cd and manually copied over /bin, /usr and /lib.

I think now I only have to bring kdm up again and firefox (at the moment it shows only the "install" window).

greetings,

bienchen