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Roman
Asked: 2018-05-06 09:51:09 +0800 CST

Asterisk tries to delete ubuntu-desktop when installing

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I'm trying to install asterisk-15.4.0 with

roman@romanPC:~/asterisk-install/asterisk-15.4.0$ sudo ./contrib/scripts/install_prereq install

At some point it says:

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

  Remove the following packages:                                 
1)      apturl                                                       
2)      hwdata                                                       
3)      libcurl4-gnutls-dev                                          
4)      nautilus-share                                               
5)      nvidia-prime                                                 
6)      pciutils                                                     
7)      software-properties-gtk                                      
8)      ubuntu-desktop                                               
9)      ubuntu-drivers-common                                        
10)     ubuntu-standard

and

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apturl{a} bbswitch-dkms{u} hwdata{a} libcurl4-gnutls-dev{a} nautilus-share{a} nvidia-prime{a} 
  pciutils{a} software-properties-gtk{a} ubuntu-desktop{a} ubuntu-drivers-common{a} 
  ubuntu-standard{a}

and further

Removing hwdata (0.267-1) ...
Removing libcurl4-gnutls-dev:amd64 (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7) ...
Removing ubuntu-standard (1.361.1) ...
Removing ubuntu-desktop (1.361.1) ...
Removing software-properties-gtk (0.96.20.7) ...
Removing ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.4.17.7) ...
Removing pciutils (1:3.3.1-1.1ubuntu1.1) ...

Is that OK? Why does it have to delete such packets as ubuntu-desktop? Should I be worried? Should I fix this or leave it alone?

My OS: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

It also said (I don't know, maybe that helps):

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.13.0-36 linux-headers-4.13.0-36-generic linux-headers-4.13.0-37
  linux-headers-4.13.0-37-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-119 linux-headers-4.4.0-119-generic
  linux-image-4.13.0-36-generic linux-image-4.13.0-37-generic linux-image-4.4.0-119-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.13.0-36-generic linux-image-extra-4.13.0-37-generic
  linux-image-extra-4.4.0-119-generic

Here is the whole log. Thanks.

apt asterisk

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This just happened to me last night, it seems like the best way to prevent this is to run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade BEFORE running the install_prereq script.

    In my case I think it removed my network manager, because attempts to re-install removed packages gave me errors. It may be possible to re-install from the apt-get cache, but I will be using my original install CD to repair.

    Similar issues have been logged:
    contrib/scripts/install_prereq can remove ssh daemon on ubuntu
    network-manager uninstalled on ubuntu desktop 14.04

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