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<p>Thanks all,</p>
<p>I have, as Ted knows, tinkered a lot over the years with ppa's
for specific packages or dependencies. I have used apt autoremove
consistently in the past but never had such a long list. The
broken packages that synaptic showed were libdeflate0-1.20 and
libdeflat0-i386-1.20. I fixed by removing libdeflate0-i386 1.20
also removed 13 others, like Wine. Nothing lost there. Synaptic
shows removing libdeflate0-1.20 would remove almost every app and
pkg on my system. <br>
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<p>As I am not the good steward of my system that Tom may imagine, I
can't verify all of my actions over the years to undo or
reconfigure everything. (No offense taken Tom.) The suggested
removable pkgs are harmless though are bloat. I think I'll clone
the SSD for a backup, which I have done before in trying to create
a remote bootable disk, which I did some months back. I can't boot
from that disk for which I blame the laptop. I can see the remote
drive in disk utility and also in Grub but in selecting it to boot
the laptop takes a little longer then boots into the onboard M.2
SSD. That's another issue. As a side bar, I have installed a 512GB
SSD in the laptop and noticed that the motherboard is upside down
so I can't add RAM. I did manage to install the 512GB SSD in the
upside down slot by lifting the case enough to slide it in. A
YouTube vid shows how to upgrade the RAM and SSD but as I said, my
motherboard is upside down so not like the vid. That is very
weird! <br>
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<p>Anyway, since the pkgs seem harmless I think I'll leave them
alone, for now.</p>
<p>Thanks again everyone! <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/24 06:13PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Brian, You
are probably safe to use autoremove under apt. The reason is
that newer releases and kernels are already installed and you
can check. "uname -r' will give you the kernel you are
running, likely a number greater than 5.4.0-176. I don't
recognize others, but if you had to eliminate or update
particular browsers, brave, chromium, and they are still
installed the command 'chromium-browser --version' will give
you the installed version. A problem with chromium is it is
sometimes "chromium" and others "chromium-browser" depending
how Ubuntu labelled it in your release. You may also have
modified applications and versions, which will impact
dependencies. Still nothing should break with "autoremove" in
apt.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hope you are
well. We had a good time getting a Debian 12 install done at
the last meeting.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you,
Ted P<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2024 at
3:30 PM Brian O'Keefe <<a
href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>>
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<p>Hello All. This is a long bit of info but I'm hoping
someone can advise.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Running Ubuntu 20.04 on ASUS laptop, AMD64. I have done an upgrade, "sudo apt upgrade". To run the upgrade I had to uninstall 13 [Package]* i386 as dependencies were broken. That's all fine now though I may need to reinstall some for functionality. However, the "apt upgrade" offers to auto remove many packages which seem, some, important. I'm very reluctant to remove them. Here they are and if anyone can advise I'd really appreciate it.</span></p>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">$ sudo apt upgrade</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Reading package lists... Done</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Building dependency tree </span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Reading state information... Done</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Calculating upgrade... Done</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> brasero-common brave-keyring caribou chromium-common chromium-sandbox</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> folks-common gir1.2-caribou-1.0 gir1.2-evince-3.0 gnome-online-miners</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> gnucash-common gnucash-docs guile-2.2 guile-3.0-libs libaa1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libalgorithm-c3-perl libaqbanking-data libaqbanking44 libavc1394-0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcapi20-3:i386 libcaribou-common</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libcaribou0 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-c3-perl</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-inspector-perl</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libclass-singleton-perl libcodec2-1.0 libcups2:i386 libcurl3-gnutls:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libcurl4:i386 libdate-manip-perl libdatetime-format-strptime-perl</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl libdatetime-timezone-perl</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libdatrie1:i386 libdav1d6 libdbi1 libdcmtk16 libdeepin-wm0 libdiscid0</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libdv4:i386 libedit2:i386 libev4</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libeval-closure-perl libexception-class-perl libexif12:i386 libfaudio0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libfcgi-perl libfile-sharedir-perl libfinance-quote-perl libfltk1.1</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libfolks-eds25 libfolks25 libfribidi0:i386 libgbm1:i386 libgdbm-compat4:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libgdbm6:i386 libgfbgraph-0.2-0 libgl1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libglapi-mesa:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libglvnd0:i386 libglx-mesa0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libglx0:i386 libgphoto2-port12:i386 libgranite-common libgraphite2-3:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libgsm1:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libgvnc-1.0-0 libgwengui-gtk3-0</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libgwenhywfar-data libgwenhywfar79 libharfbuzz0b:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libhtml-tableextract-perl libicu66:i386 libiec61883-0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libieee1284-3:i386 libimath29 libimath30 libisofs6 libjasper7 libjbig0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libjpeg-turbo8:i386 libjpeg8:i386 libjson-parse-perl libjte2</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libk5crypto3:i386 libkeyutils1:i386 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> liblc3-0 liblcms2-2:i386 liblerc3 libllvm12:i386 libltdl7:i386 liblua5.4-0</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> liblzma-dev libmro-compat-perl libmusicbrainz5-2 libmysqlclient21:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libnamespace-autoclean-perl libnettle7:i386 libnghttp2-14:i386 libodbc1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libofx7 liboobs-1-5 libopenal1:i386 libopenexr30 libopenfec libosinfo-1.0-0</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libosinfo-bin libosmesa6:i386 libosp5 libparams-validationcompiler-perl</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libpcap0.8:i386 libpci3:i386 libpciaccess0:i386 libperl5.30:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libproxy1-plugin-webkit libproxy1v5:i386 libpsl5:i386 libraw1394-11:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libraw20 libroc librtmp1:i386 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libsensors5:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libsharpyuv0:i386 libshout3:i386 libslang2:i386 libsndio7:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libsnmp35:i386 libsodium27 libspecio-perl libspeex1:i386 libspeexdsp-dev</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 libssh-4:i386 libstb0:i386 libstd-rust-1.70</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libstd-rust-1.72 libstd-rust-1.73 libstd-rust-1.74 libtag1v5:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libtag1v5-vanilla:i386 libthai0:i386 libtwolame0:i386 libunwind-dev</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libusb-1.0-0:i386 libuv1-dev libv4l-0:i386 libv4lconvert0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libvirt-glib-1.0-0 libvkd3d-shader1:i386 libvkd3d1:i386 libvpx7 libvpx8:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libvulkan1:i386 libwavpack1:i386 libwayland-client0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libwayland-cursor0:i386 libwayland-egl1:i386 libwayland-server0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libwebp7:i386 libwebsockets16 libwireplumber-0.4-0 libwxbase3.0-0v5</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libx11-xcb1:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386 libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libxcb-present0:i386 libxcb-randr0:i386 libxcb-sync1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libxcb-xfixes0:i386 libxcomposite1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxdamage1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libxfixes3:i386 libxi6:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxkbcommon0:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libxml2:i386 libxmlsec1 libxpm4:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxshmfence1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libxslt1.1:i386 libxss1:i386 libxstring-perl libxv1:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> libzapojit-0.0-0 libzstd1:i386 libzxingcore1 linux-headers-5.4.0-174</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> linux-headers-5.4.0-174-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-176</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> linux-headers-5.4.0-176-generic linux-image-5.4.0-174-generic</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> linux-image-5.4.0-176-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-174-generic</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> linux-modules-5.4.0-176-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-174-generic</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-176-generic mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 osinfo-db python3-gnucash system-tools-backends</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> vkd3d-compiler:i386 wine-stable-amd64 wine64</span><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.</span>
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