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Usermaxn
Asked: 2024-06-22 09:25:35 +0800 CST

apt wants to remove important sounding packages

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Apt suddenly said the packages libdaxctl1 libndctl6 libpmem1 are no longer needed and should be autoremoved.

these packages all sound really important. so I set them to manually installed.

can someone help me find what packages depended on them to no longer need them or what they have been replaced with? I am on kubuntu 24.04.

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  1. Best Answer

    Why do you think they're important?

    A quick look for one in what is provided on a new full install (https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/noble/release/kubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.manifest) and I don't see the packages, so they've been added post-install by a user of your machine with sudo privileges (as a consequence of other installs most likely)

    We're limited to details you provide us, but if I was using a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system here, I'd not be concerned with them being removed; not with my usage of my computer, but my usage & hardware likely differs to yours.

    To work out what you installed that requires them, you could try exploring apt rdepends libdaxctl1 to explore the libdaxctl1 package, or if you want to see effects use sudo apt --dry-run remove libdaxctl1 (the output of the rdepends would I'd hope trigger memories for me that will tell me why its installed, where the second --dry-run command should be even more obvious as to why it was installed, or that its not required).

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  2. You can trust the APT package management system. It will never remove dependencies if these are still required by other software on the system.

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