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Allan MacKinnon (theforkofjustice) wrote : Re: new state "installed (manual)" on synaptic

Was using an up-to-date Alpha 5

I tried changing the status of the packages under 'Manual' to 'Automatically Installed' by using the option in the 'Package' menu entry.

For most of them they changed without a fuss. However a few packages uninstalled key parts of the system. The only problematic packages I managed to catch were:

ubuntu-desktop
ubuntu-minimal
ubuntu-standard

There are others as well that removed more than they should have but I didn't bother remembering their names because the packages they asked to remove seemed 'reasonable' to me at the time. However, the 3 listed above will suggest you autoremove your entire system when their status is changed to 'Automatically Installed' in Synaptic, especially ubuntu-desktop.