tasksel remove lamp-server trashed ubuntu

[Ron Crump]

Binary package hint: tasksel

I was having problems setting up LAMP, mailman and mediawiki, so decided to go back to the beginning. So I set about uninstalling them.

Unfortunately, "sudo tasksel remove lamp-server" caused lots of things to be deleted - so much so that a fresh install of ubuntu was required.

This was on 64-bit ubuntu 7.04. This is a production machine belonging to my employer, so I am unable to replicate the problem to get further information, however searching on the ubuntu forums found this thread, where someone else has experienced the same thing:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=510403&highlight=tasksel+remove

[jingo811 (phiuk-yue)]

Hey that somebody seems to be me :-) Yeah so I like also want to officially make a complaint about tasksel.
Do you programmers have a solution for undoing the tasksel / removal of lamp-server function yet?

[nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Very similar bugs, but not setting them as duplicates yet: I'm not sure whether they are real duplicates, as they have different tasksel versions and/or mention different tasks:
bug 250287
bug 150282
bug 141602

[nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

In my previous comment I made a typo: 150282 is an entirely different bug. That should have been bug 150252. It is currently triaged and has importance high.

[nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I will mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 150252. Thank you for reporting it. Please keep reporting any other bug you may find.

[jake dalton (jacobrdalton)]

This bug still trashes ubuntu (kubuntu in my case) in karmic 9.10.