From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 6/16/24 3:09 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
   I was able to download packages from my other OS but it took me a few   
   tries to get the one I needed installed.   
      
   As long as a was fooling around, I transplanted both drives into a   
   better machine.   
      
   Both quad core with 16 gigs of ram but my present machine has a 3.2ghz   
   CPU as compared to 2.7   
      
   It made more of a difference that I thought.   
      
   I was going to clone my SATA to an SSD, but really it's not going to be   
   necessary.   
      
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