Is autoremove safe?

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Hello,

After the upgrade to plasma 6 (which crashed on first reboot, I had to go through tty, remove wine, run pkcon update and pkcon repair there), apt signals a whole lot of package to remove with autoremove.
I removed some which description clearly said there were dummy packages, but there are some which feels suspicious to me.

akonadi-backend-mysql and mariadb-server-core-10.6 are in the list, how can I be sure my akonadi does not use this backend and will be safe?
There are a lot of qml-module-*, and also plasma-widgets-addon, neon-configure-inotify.

Here is the whole list:

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I have consistently run autoremove and also Bleach Bit, including Bleach Bit as Administrator. Could this have caused the instability I experienced with Wayland, and also some of the momentary loss of responsiveness I am getting on X11?

I too would like to know how safe is autoremove and also tools like Bleach Bit.

My system was flawless before the KDE 6 upgrade. The Wayland crashing was very troubling, but the loss of responsiveness I am consistently getting on X11 also is new since the upgrade. I wonder if any user error is to blame from my use of autoremove and Bleach Bit.

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Should be safe.

Your distribution should have a “plasma-desktop” package or something like that. As long as it’s correctly installed (with its dependencies, and preferably recommendations), the Plasma desktop should work alright.

4

Time to copy/paste again:

How do I Update to the Latest Software? :link:

KDE neon does continuous deployment of the latest KDE software which means there are nearly always new versions of our software to update to. We recommend using Plasma Discover’s updater which appears in your panel:

If you prefer to use the command line you can use the pkcon command:

  • pkcon refresh
  • pkcon update

This will install all new packages and uses the same PackageKit code as Plasma Discover. Some uses of apt do not install new packages which makes it less suitable for KDE neon.

Use flatpak.

5

But is there any way to double check my akonadi is not using mysql backend? I’m scared the system will break again if I run autoremove.

6

I decided to try it out and ran the autoremove.

It broke akonadi at least, it’s not starting anymore and kmail won’t start.

Would anyone know why neon decided to remove it if it was in use? Should I manually install the package back? Is it a dependency of some meta-package that I’m missing?

On a brand new neon installation, is akonadi mysql backend in use?

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do you get any error message in kmail? If not, start kmail from a terminal and see if there’s any error there.

In any case I would recommend you to create a new post with a related title, so that more would have a look at it (the current title is rather generic at might not draw the attention of the right people)

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482189 – Akonadi not working after upgrading from 5.27 to 6.0 I have the same issue as this ticket I think.

Kmail starts after a while but complains that akonadi is not started.

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You could try reinstalling the package.

$ apt install akonadi-backend-mysql

and then restart the service on the command line with akonadictl.

$ akonadictl status
$ akonadictl restart

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Yeah in the end I reinstalled akonadi-mysql-backend and it works again. Let’s hope the autoremove did not break too many other things…