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   philo to philo   
   Re: network manager   
   16 Jun 24 11:16:46   
   
   From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 6/16/24 10:40 AM, philo wrote:   
   > First off, I cloned my Ubuntu 24.04 HD first and confirmed all was good.   
   >   
   > Now, with my old drive, I decided to experiment and see if I could   
   > remove packages so I'd have a minimal installation and of course,   
   > removed the network manager and now I'm off line and cannot easily   
   > reinstall.   
   >   
   > Since I'm dual booting with Mint, I can easily enough download packages   
   > I need, then boot back to Ubuntu to install them.   
   >   
   > Problem is, I am unable to install anything due to unmet dependencies.   
   >   
   > Is there some .deb meta package I can download to reinstall network   
   > capabilities.   
   >   
   > Hey, it's raining today and I needed another project.   
   >   
   > Last night I did an SCO-Unix install on an old machine just so I could   
   > play a certain text-based game.   
      
      
      
   LOL   
      
   Fool with it for hours.   
   Five minutes after I post this, I got it sorted out>   
      
   One one my bigger screw ups.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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