Installing fuse package removes other important packages which causes instabilities

[Thomas Brunner]

I installed the `fuse` package in my fresh Ubuntu 22.04 installation and later started getting weird behavior in some applications (such as Chrome). I believe this might be related, as installing `fuse` caused many packages to be removed.

This was reported by others here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1970148

apt log shows this:
`
Start-Date: 2022-06-04 10:31:38
Commandline: apt install fuse
Requested-By: thomas (1000)
Install: libfuse2:amd64 (2.9.9-5ubuntu3, automatic), fuse:amd64 (2.9.9-5ubuntu3)
Remove: ntfs-3g:amd64 (1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1), xdg-desktop-portal-gtk:amd64 (1.14.0-1build1), xdg-desktop-portal-gnome:amd64 (42.1-0ubuntu1), gvfs-fuse:amd64 (1.48.1-4), ubuntu-desktop:amd64 (1.481), gnome-shell-
extension-desktop-icons-ng:amd64 (43-2), fuse3:amd64 (3.10.5-1build1), ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 (1.481), xdg-desktop-portal:amd64 (1.14.3-0ubuntu2.22.04.1)
End-Date: 2022-06-04 10:31:57
`

So, installing `fuse` removes packages such as `ubuntu-desktop` and `xdg-desktop-portal`, which (I believe) are important packages and should not be removed.

System information:
Ubuntu 22.04 running on amd64 hardware

[Thomas Brunner (thomasbbrunner)]

Maybe also relevant: I installed the minimal desktop version of Ubuntu 22.04

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

But you should be using the “fuse3” package, not “fuse”, which is an old version…

[Thomas Brunner (thomasbbrunner)]

Honestly, I am not that familiar with fuse to know there are different versions. If a program throws an error stating it requires fuse to work, I am going to install fuse and not fuse3.

If fuse is outdated, why isn't fuse mapped to fuse3?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Halim Zaghdoudi (halimbo)]

This also affected me using Lubuntu 22.04.3.
I could not run an appimage (windows2usb) because fuse was "missing".
when i installed fuse the following packages were removed:
fuse3 gvfs-fuse lubuntu-desktop ntfs-3g plasma-discover-backend-snap xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-kde

it then pulled libfuse2, which is on of the conflicts i guess

[Dave Stockinger (dave-stockinger)]

This bug affected me when trying to run an AppImage program. It broke my installation and I had to re-install the following packages:

ntfs-3g:amd64 (1:2022.10.3-1ubuntu1)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk:amd64 (1.14.1-1)
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome:amd64 (45.0-1)
gnome-remote-desktop:amd64 (45.0-1)
gvfs-fuse:amd64 (1.52.0-1)
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng:amd64 (46+really47.0.7-0ubuntu1)
fuse3:amd64 (3.14.0-4)
ubuntu-session:amd64 (45.0-1ubuntu1)
ubuntu-desktop-minimal:amd64 (1.524.1)
nautilus:amd64 (1:45~rc-1ubuntu1)
xdg-desktop-portal:amd64 (1.18.0-1ubuntu1)

In my opinion, *any* apt command that attempts to uninstall a package like ubuntu-session or ubuntu-desktop* should be blocked and require a flag like --yes-i-want-to-break-my-system or similar.

[Kamil Madac (kamil-madac)]

Same to me on 23.10. Also tried to run Appimage application. I got error that fuse is not installed, so I did apt install fuse and after the restart, gdm3 core dumped and every boot was stucked in the console. It took me quite some time to find that I need to install ubuntu-session again.

This fixed the problem with core-dump of gdm3, but then file manager nautilus was also missing.