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.   
      
      
   I had a ton of fun the other day when I uninstalled some necessary   
   network functions and could not use use Synaptic to retrieve them.   
      
   Had down download from a different install and copy them to the drive   
   manually. A major PITA   
      
      
   Today, I found a drive in my workshop with Debian 7 on it.   
      
   That was what lead the way to Ubuntu for me.   
      
   Just for the heck of it, I tried to see if I could add a component using   
   Synaptic.   
      
   Since there were no valid on-line sources, it simply asked me to insert   
   the original distribution media and it was all taken care of in a matter   
   of seconds.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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