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					| Post subject: KDE Transition 5.8.x (2016-10): plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 08.10.2016, 19:38 |  | 
  
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          | Greetings, Dist-upgrade wants to remove kde-plama-desktop, and plasma-desktop. Is that intentional?
 
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The following additional packages will be installed:
kinfocenter kscreen libkf5screen7 liblzma-dev liblzma5 plasma-workspace qml-module-qtqml-models2
 Suggested packages:
 lrzip liblzma-doc
 Recommended packages:
 libpam-kwallet5
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
 kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
 qml-module-qtqml-models2
 The following packages will be upgraded:
 kde-cli-tools kde-cli-tools-data kinfocenter kscreen libarchive13 libkf5screen7 liblzma-dev liblzma5
 plasma-workspace
 9 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 124 not upgraded.
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 09.10.2016, 01:40 |  | 
  
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          | I don't think so.  It seems Plasma 5.8 is coming in. |  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 09.10.2016, 19:14 |  | 
  
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          | Upgrade works fine. Nothing to be removed. |  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 09.10.2016, 20:57 |  | 
  
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          | I've prepended the topic name to spell out the actual problem here (KDE Transition 5.8.x), as mentioned by ruebe99, it should be mostly resolved by now. |  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 09.10.2016, 21:02 |  | 
  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 10.10.2016, 19:25 |  | 
  
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          | For what is worth, I've DUed two systems and both are running well.  I only had to do one "apt -f install" (on both) during the upgrade, but no problems so far. |  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 16.10.2016, 03:06 |  | 
  
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          | Yes. All is back to normal. Samba was segfaulting, but it's been fixed now.
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 16.10.2016, 05:39 |  | 
  
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          | Be happy that you upgraded in time, before today's (new, smaller, but still disruptive) KDE transition got started  |  
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 16.10.2016, 21:49 |  | 
  
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          | Yup. 
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The following packages will be REMOVED:
kde-plasma-desktop kinfocenter libkf5runner5 milou plasma-desktop plasma-runners-addons plasma-widgets-addons
 plasma-workspace qml-module-org-kde-runnermodel sddm sddm-theme-breeze
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 224 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 11 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
 Need to get 174 MB of archives.
 After this operation, 100 MB of additional disk space will be used.
 
 $ apt-cache policy plasma-desktop
 plasma-desktop:
 Installed: 4:5.8.0-1
 Candidate: 4:5.8.0-1
 Version table:
 *** 4:5.8.0-1 500
 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 4:4.11.13-2 500
 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
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					| Post subject: RE: kde-plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to be removed  Posted: 16.10.2016, 23:43 |  | 
  
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          | ...and it should be through/ o.k. again. |  
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