debian &mdash; musicmatzes blog https://beyermatthias.de/tag:debian Thu, 07 May 2026 13:42:57 +0200 Pruning and reinstalling https://beyermatthias.de/pruning-and-reinstalling <![CDATA[I own a second notebook (my old one) which currently runs Debian stable. I use it for skype only, as I don't want this proprietary software on my main machine. Recently, I deinstalled a lot of crap which comes with Debian per default (in the Gnome version). I deinstalled Libreoffice. I deinstalled Gimp. I deinstalled similar software nobody needs (on a skype-only machine). !-- more -- Suprisingly I deinstalled network-manager as well. I don't know how this could happen! Now, how to reinstall the network-manager if you cannot access the internet? Well, if you did not reboot, it might work. But I did! It's really simple: Just go to the Debian-packages website and download the package. Then, transfer it to the appropriate machine and install it with sudo dpkg -i package Well, you can only do that if you have another machine where you can download the package. If you don't have such a machine, you should ask a friend or so! If you didn't run sudo apt-get autoremove The package may be remaining in the cache of apt-get. You have to google around where this cache is, but the procedure should be the same, if you found the package. tags: #linux #debian ]]> I own a second notebook (my old one) which currently runs Debian stable. I use it for skype only, as I don't want this proprietary software on my main machine. Recently, I deinstalled a lot of crap which comes with Debian per default (in the Gnome version). I deinstalled Libreoffice. I deinstalled Gimp. I deinstalled similar software nobody needs (on a skype-only machine).

Suprisingly I deinstalled network-manager as well. I don't know how this could happen! Now, how to reinstall the network-manager if you cannot access the internet? Well, if you did not reboot, it might work. But I did! It's really simple: Just go to the Debian-packages website and download the package. Then, transfer it to the appropriate machine and install it with

sudo dpkg -i package

Well, you can only do that if you have another machine where you can download the package. If you don't have such a machine, you should ask a friend or so! If you didn't run

sudo apt-get autoremove

The package may be remaining in the cache of apt-get. You have to google around where this cache is, but the procedure should be the same, if you found the package.

tags: #linux #debian

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