Update to KDE 4.9 uninstalls muon (with recommends set to off)

[David Roth]

Updating to KDE 4.9 seems to uninstall muon. This happened with automatic install of recommended packages set to off, but I don't know if this is related. Strangely there was no notice of this happening in the list of changing packages. Reinstalling after the update using apt-get fixed the problem for now.

[Alex Ball (a-ball)]

I just experienced this as well. For reference, the full list of packages removed in the upgrade is:
* userconfig
* language-selector-kde
* kubuntu-desktop
* plasma-widget-facebook
* muon
* kthesaurus
* muon-installer
* usb-creator-kde
* apt-url-kde
* libkdegames5a
* plasma-widget-veromix
* akregator
* kde-config-touchpad
* akonadi-kde-resource-googledata
* software-properties-kde
* muon-updater
* jockey-kde
* libmuonprivate1
* apport-kde
* muon-notifier

Reinstalling kubuntu-desktop restored most of these packages.

I don't know if it was related, but during the upgrade the process choked on libtemplateparser4, but on the second attempt the upgrade completed successfully.

[Alex Ball (a-ball)]

I should say that list was from my experience; can't speak for others, obviously.

[Tuukka Verho (tyverho)]

Happened to me too. My guess is that kubuntu-desktop becomes unselected in the update, and the other packages get uninstalled as a consequence.

[Agustín Kanashiro (akanashiro)]

Same happened to me.
I had to install muon packages after upgrading.

[Ettore Atalan (atalanttore)]

Same problem after upgrading from KDE 4.9.1 to KDE 4.9.2

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