> And bet what? I did it myself, too. Having been in a hurry I said yes > just to find out that apt started to uninstall parts of the desktop > environment I used to start the command from (within a Konsole session). > In case you do it: You own it. And its yours to fix it :), no one else > is obligated to fix it for you. Of course you can still ask for help. > [...] > In case you ask, provide full output of apt so we can all know what it > is about to do, in case you say yes. >
Just a note to future users (including myself) , in addition to the very good advice from Martin : in case you accidentally say yes, not everything is lost. Debian is so great that it keeps snapshots of the package archive at different points in time: http://snapshots.debian.org/archive/debian/ You can check what "apt-get dist-upgrade" did to your system by inspecting " /var/log/apt/history.log ". If it says: Start-Date: 2018-05-17 10:31:21 [...] End-Date: 2018-05-17 10:53:24 Start-Date: 2018-06-28 18:45:04 Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages' Requested-By: john (1002) Upgrade: [..] plasma-nm:amd64 (4:5.12.3-2, 4:5.13.1-1) Remove: [..] plasma-workspace:amd64 (4:5.12.5-1) Start-Date: 2018-06-28 18:55:24 You can: - point your /etc/apt/sources.list to a snapshot archive very close to the last successful update (2018-05-17 10:31:21) - apt-get update (to fetch the list of packages from that point in time) - apt-get install [..] plasma-nm:amd64=4:5.12.3-2 [..] plasma-workspace:amd64=4:5.12.5-1 (so, you ask to install the removed packages and the previous version of upgraded ones) (you can produce this list automatically from the log with a bit of work) YMMV but it worked for me. -- Marco
