Thread: apt-get dist-upgrade started to removed alot of UI/lib/apps :-O
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Matan is offline Matan
2010-08-16 , 16:01
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Just did a big mistake

apt-get update

then:

apt-get dist-upgrade

I cannot remember that it got any warning about "remove core UI libs" but it did infact! Now i cannot start my phone damn me :-(

I now this is not the way to upgrade but still it is wierd? could this happen when using fastappmanager too?

I just wonder if this has happened to others? Are the repositorys broken or what? Or have a accidently added some wierd app that have added a virus...

This really makes me curious.
It is possible that an upgrade of a system package is available in one of the repositories you use. Since Nokia chose to have all dependencies by exact version, the solution apt-get finds is to uninstall almost all system packages. If you did not use --force-yes option to apt-get, then apt did give you a (long) list of packages to be removed and asked for confirmation. A safer option is to use upgrade instead of dist-upgrade. This does not allow for removal of packages in order to upgrade version of existing packages.
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