Re: Git install crashed nearly whole System

[Christian Strasser <christian@avr-fun.de>]

On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 17:17 -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> On March 14, 2021 2:24 PM, Christian Strasser wrote:
> > Subject: Git install crashed nearly whole System
> > I installed Git yesterday on my system. For that I used “sudo apt-
> > get install
> > git-all”.  During the installation a lot of very important packages
> > got removed!
> > It was horrible, and I couldn’t use my gnome desktop environment at
> > all! A
> > lot off dependencies got lost!
> > Fortunately, I could save my system through read out the
> > information about
> > removed packages from the apt history.
> > 
> > Today I totally removed git and tried to install everything again
> > with the same
> > instruction. The same misbehavior did happen!
> > 
> > For more information I added the history as an attachment to this
> > email.
> > 
> > Information about my system:
> > 
> > Kernel          : Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (x86_64)
> > Version         : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30)
> > C Library       : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28
> > Distribution    : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
> > 
> > Gnome           : Version: 3.30.2-11~deb10u2 (apt-cache show gnome-
> > shell  grep Version) -> 3.30.2
> 
> I think it might be appropriate to report this to the apt team. The
> links can be found here: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedureshould
> 
> I just (2021 Mar 03 2115Z) ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
> git. Yes, it did upgrade a whole lot of packages, including ansible,
> git, syslog, openssh, and many others. The apt manager for ubuntu
> only appears to know about git 2.7.4. You might have to add the git-
> core repository using: add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
> 
> After I added that, then ran apt-get upgrade git, I am now on git
> 2.29.0. Granted this is Ubuntu, not Debian, but apt should be ok. I'm
> not sure about the "git-all" package. I have never used that one (not
> is it certified at my place - just "git" is).
> 
> Regards,
> Randall
> 
Hello Randall,

thank you for your reply. I'll consider your suggestion.

Regards,
Christian