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   Jonathan N. Little to philo   
   Re: network manager   
   16 Jun 24 16:09:16   
   
   From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   philo wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Just remember 1) you can always statically define your connection. 2)   
   use a live session to download the network manager package and save it   
   to your "broken" system drive.   
      
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   Take care,   
      
   Jonathan   
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