Still happens on Ubuntu 20.04.
I have put a warning in the German wiki.ubuntuusers.de.
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Still happens on Ubuntu 18.10. I removed openssh-server and noticed a
lot of dependencies of ubuntu-desktop removed. Running "apt install
ubuntu-desktop" after it installed 270 packages.
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now.
On 7 December 2016 at 15:20, Telefo <150...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> I can confirm that this bug is still present in Ubuntu 16.04. It's a
> very annoying behavior!!!
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I can confirm that this bug is still present in Ubuntu 16.04. It's a
very annoying behavior!!!
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This bug is still present in Ubuntu Trusty... Almost eight years later!
I just wanted to install LAMP and now I find myself reinstalling all the
packages that tasksel decided to remove. Long work ahead configuring everything
again.
No need to say that this is unbelievable, tasksel should be
graingert - Could you elaborate as to how you went about recreating this
in Natty. I've tried adding and removing multiple tasks with tasksel in
Natty and was never saw ubuntu-desktop removed.
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[master] tasksel removes all Ubuntu-desktop dependencies without
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yes tasksel will still remove ubuntu-desktop in ubuntu natty
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This is still a problem. I'm running a clean install of ubuntu server
10.10, selecting the DNS, Virtualisation Host, Samba, and Open SSH. I
later installed mediatomb and vlc, configured those programs, and then
decided that I needed to remove the virtual host machine. I sat and
watched as all my
There needs to be a HUGE warning that tasksel is dangerous and should
not be used. I just blew away a system today because I wanted to add dns
server to a desktop system. This bug is so bad it should be considered a
security vulnerability.
I put a checkmark on Add DNS server and hit OK. Then I
God! I just found this page after run the famous 'tasksel remove lamp-server'
today (under 10.04 Lucid Lynx).
Not only ubuntu-desktop, I also wipeout my ssh-server, mail-server and their
dependencies.
Really really dangerous, don't try this at /home.
sometimes 'man page' just ain't enough ..
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this bug is still present in Lucid.
tasksel is dangerous and shouldn't be used. also tasksel looks like the
standard way of installing lamp-server in ubuntu wiki but it shouldn't
be because when removing packages it wipes the system. is there anything
more dangerous than that? why are we still
Bug is still present in Karmic. I removed 'print-server' from tasksel
and it removed the entire ubuntu-desktop and all it's dependencies
(basically all the GUI apps). It looked the same as if / got removed.
I fixed it by reinstalling ubuntu-desktop and all my programs again.
Luckily, almost all
Bug still present. Just trashed my kubuntu 9.10 box. Days of my life
wasted.
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Confirmed for karmic here as well ... sudo tasksel remove lamp-server
just removed lots of packages ... will check the dpkg.log and see if I
can re-install everything again :-(
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I can confirm this bug in Karmic 9.10. Mine is an amd64 install of
Kubuntu and my desktop no longer exists.
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FYI - I just received this update today for Intrepid, via Update
Manager. Yeah!
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** Tags added: verification-done
** Tags removed: verification-needed
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This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.73ubuntu11.1
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tasksel (2.73ubuntu11.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=high
* Backport from jaunty:
- Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still
selected or not displayed (LP: #150252).
* Fix
This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.70ubuntu6
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tasksel (2.70ubuntu6) hardy-proposed; urgency=high
* Backport from jaunty:
- Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still
selected or not displayed (LP: #150252).
* Fix kubuntu-kde4-live task
I can confirm that tasksel 2.73ubuntu11.1 (intrepid-proposed) and
tasksel 2.70ubuntu6 (hardy-proposed) does the trick. In Intrepid I can
now remove virt-host without it removing openssh-server and in Hardy I
can now remove print-server without mail-server getting removed.
I've also verified it
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:43:12AM -, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
Why is it difficult to maintain?
Just put the final (leaf) packages in the task, for example,
lamp task could only consist of,
apache, mysql-server, php,
rather than,
apache, apache-common, mysql-server,
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: tasksel
+ When removing tasks, tasksel simply removes all packages listed for that
+ task. This fails badly in some cases because many tasks have substantial
+ overlap, so removing one task can inadvertently take out others. This is
+ compounded
Accepted tasksel into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback
here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for
documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu Intrepid)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
** Tags
This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.73ubuntu17
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tasksel (2.73ubuntu17) jaunty; *urgency=low*
* Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still selected
or not displayed (LP: #150252).
* Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, adjusting description of
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:35:20AM -, inksmithy wrote:
tasksel (2.73ubuntu17) jaunty; *urgency=low*
Oh, well, that's completely irrelevant so who cares? The only purpose of
the urgency field in Ubuntu is to cause the source package to be
scheduled for building marginally quicker. As a result
Well with all due respect, how is the average user (like me) supposed
to evaluate it? I would suggest that if two people involved with the
same bug have made the mistake of paying attention to an irrelevant
(should that be redundant and pointless) rating, there are probably
quite a few more out
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:13:38AM -, inksmithy wrote:
Well with all due respect, how is the average user (like me) supposed
to evaluate it? I would suggest that if two people involved with the
same bug have made the mistake of paying attention to an irrelevant
(should that be redundant
On 3/17/09, Launchpad Bug Tracker 150...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote:
This bug was fixed in the package tasksel - 2.73ubuntu17
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tasksel (2.73ubuntu17) jaunty; urgency=low
* Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still selected
or not displayed (LP:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:47:01PM -, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
On 3/17/09, Launchpad Bug Tracker 150...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote:
tasksel (2.73ubuntu17) jaunty; urgency=low
* Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still selected
or not displayed (LP:
I mean, it is resolved by,
1. changing the program logic in tasksel?, or by
2. remove the common and/or library packages from the tasks (such as,
lamp task)?
On 3/24/09, Colin Watson cjwat...@canonical.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:47:01PM -, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
On 3/17/09,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:32:14PM -, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
I mean, it is resolved by,
1. changing the program logic in tasksel?, or by
2. remove the common and/or library packages from the tasks (such as,
lamp task)?
(1). I fixed the logic in tasksel to avoid removing packages when
On 3/24/09, Colin Watson cjwat...@canonical.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:32:14PM -, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
I mean, it is resolved by,
1. changing the program logic in tasksel?, or by
2. remove the common and/or library packages from the tasks (such as,
lamp task)?
No, sorry, we haven't done updates for older release yet.
And, err, it isn't marked Low, it's marked High.
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this bug was not fixed soon enough to save me just now...
I'm running 8.10 so this apparently hasn't been released yet? and, why is this
marked Urgency:Low, when it can wipe-out your entire installation?
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* Avoid removing packages that are in other tasks that are still selected
or not displayed (LP: #150252).
* Update Ubuntu tasks from seeds, adjusting description of
** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu Jaunty)
Status: Triaged = In Progress
Target: intrepid-updates = None
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** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu Hardy)
Importance: Undecided = High
Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Status: New = Triaged
Target: None = ubuntu-8.04.3
** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu Intrepid)
Importance: Undecided = High
Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin
** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Watson (kamion)
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I can confirm this bug in Intrepid. Running sudo tasksel remove lamp-
server removes the desktop and other packages (so far I just reinstalled
ubuntu-desktop and everything seems ok).
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