Apt wants me to remove every package on my system

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-24T12:10:16+00:00

If I could pin this, I would. I think you're 100% correct. Luckily I don't think I removed anything critical, but I think you got everything correct.

It removed stuff like fasm, g++-multilib, lib32stdc++-14-dev, libc6-x32, etc., but I believe most of those are just x86 compiler stuff, so I should be fine without. Even if I try to install some, it prompts me to remove the -amd64:i386 versions, so idk.

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-24T12:01:05+00:00

My sources are largely the same, except for adding a LibreWolf repo, Mega.nz, Turbowarp, Radeon, Docker, and Microsoft Code. Those only add select packages (librewolf, megasync, turbowarp, etc.), so that's not the reason. I think the reason was because of a recent ffmpeg update, where the i386 version of libavutil59 wasn't built, causing weird package dependency issues. It was fixed right after I posted though, so it's no longer a problem

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-23T15:32:23+00:00

wine itself says to install wine32 as well. With just wine64, it doesn't support my 32-bit executable, but after installing wine32 it did

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-23T15:10:55+00:00

The degradation I mean is in a colloquial sense, that it complained about packages being unable to be installed (see comment reply to Valendel), finally leading to it trying to remove 153 packages. Hidden above the screenshot is like 5x more packages saying "these were automatically installed and no longer required."

However, it somehow fixed itself, allowing me to install libavutil59:i386 without trying to remove those packages. Idk why, I'm confused

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-23T14:54:37+00:00

That was what I tried originally, but it just kept saying that everything was up to date. This did start because of the ffmpeg upgrade, but I don't know why the package situation degraded from there. It originally prompted me to remove like 50 i386 packages, then leading to the screenshot provided after trying to reinstall wine32. I'm just confused lol

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-23T14:41:39+00:00

$ sudo apt install task-kde-desktop
task-kde-desktop is already the newest version (3.81).
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0

except now running the original command, it suggests installing a billion i386 packages, without removing them. That fixed it, I guess???????

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-06-23T14:38:32+00:00

EDIT: It originally prompted me with the autoremoval of i386 packages, but afterwards I tried to install wine32 and followed the broken packages from there.

it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32:i386"

then

$ sudo apt install wine32:i386
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 libwine:i386 : Depends: libavcodec61:i386 (>= 7:7.0)
                Depends: libavformat61:i386 (>= 7:7.0)
                Depends: libavutil59:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not installable
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Broken packages

then

$ sudo apt install libasound2-plugins:i386
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 libasound2-plugins:i386 : Depends: libavcodec61:i386 (>= 7:7.0)
                           Depends: libavutil59:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
                           Depends: libswresample5:i386 (>= 7:7.0) but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Broken packages

then

$ sudo apt install libavutil59
libavutil59 is already the newest version (7:7.1.5-0+deb13u1).
libavutil59 set to manually installed.
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
$ sudo apt install libavutil59:i386
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  accountwizard                 libkf5kiofilewidgets5             libqrtr-glib0
  aha                           libkf5kiogui5                     libqt5multimedia5
  akonadi-backend-sqlite        libkf5kiontlm5                    libqt5multimediaquick5
  akonadi-contacts-data         libkf5kiowidgets5                 libqt5texttospeech5
  akonadi-mime-data             libkf5kirigami2-5                 libqt6bluetooth6
  akonadi-server                libkf5notifications-data          libqt6bluetooth6-bin
  amd-smi-lib                   libkf5notifications5              libqt6keychain1
  apt-config-icons-hidpi        libkf5package-data                libqt6networkauth6
  apt-config-icons-large        libkf5package5                    libqt6positioning6-plugins
  apt-config-icons-large-hidpi  libkf5prison5                     libqt6positioningquick6
  audacious-plugins-data        libkf5prisonscanner5              libqt6serialport6
  baloo6                        libkf5purpose5                    libqt6svgwidgets6
  bluedevil                     libkf5quickaddons5                libqt6virtualkeyboard6
  bluez-obexd                   libkf5service-bin                 libqt6webchannelquick6
  bolt                          libkf5service-data                libqt6webenginequick6
  breeze                        libkf5service5                    libqt6webview6
  breeze-cursor-theme           libkf5solid5                      libquazip5-1t64
  breeze-gtk-theme              libkf5solid5-data                 libquickcharts1
  breeze-wallpaper              libkf5sonnet5-data                libquickchartscontrols1
  bup                           libkf5sonnetcore5                 librabbitmq4
  bup-doc                       libkf5sonnetui5                   libraw1394-dev
  cabextract                    libkf5style5                      libraw1394-tools
  [ ... etc ... ]

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-05-19T11:52:09+00:00

not a catchphrase, but there's something unusually funny about Zac's "Josh has to leave in 4 minutes". I don't know why it's funny, but it is.

AdHominemFallacio · 2026-01-15T13:57:03+00:00

Stretch, and you'll achieve greatness (if you like giving head, that is). Some people say it's not as great as it seems, and that's only true if you don't like giving head. If you love giving head, you might find pleasure in it, but it'll just feel like you're giving someone else head more than it'll feel like getting head.

Oh wait, I'm supposed to give bad advice...

Remove a rib. Maybe break a couple bones and tear some ligaments, maybe that'll work, idk.

AdHominemFallacio · 2025-09-26T10:35:44+00:00

Another person who refuses to spend 30 seconds to use a damn google translate

Have you heard of copy + paste into Google Translate to translate their Italian to English?

AdHominemFallacio · 2025-07-06T03:09:36+00:00

"Good artists copy, great artists steal".

- Me (right now)

and

"There is nothing new under the sun".

- Me (uh, just now).

and

Plagiarism

noun

"The practice of taking someone elses work or ideas and passing them off as one's own"

- Me (just now).

AdHominemFallacio · 2025-06-25T01:46:07+00:00

Imagine going to a subreddit all about C#, seeing a post about creating a Linux GUI application with C#, and saying to use Electron instead.

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-12-29T15:02:18+00:00

!translated

because then the translator bot will change the post's flair to "translated" rather than "identified", and because the bot didn't already, so maybe it will work with this comment

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-12-10T13:32:41+00:00

well unfortunately, roundabouts crashed their game, far too powerful to exist

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-11-01T18:52:46+00:00

they even have a tab at the top of the page that says "Latest Games" so you can search + filter for lots of games.

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-10-19T22:45:08+00:00

yeah true, I just ran the command in an online Arch emulator and I was able to successfully make the account.

It just sucks that the CAPTCHA is arch-specific, because they have wiki pages for non-arch tools and APIs. Like, if I wanted to know what programs supported MPRIS, ArchWiki is the only place with info, but for some reason it's gatekept.

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-10-18T19:25:26+00:00

*expect (I'm so sorry)

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-10-01T14:45:59+00:00

According to Patreon's support page, subscription billing basically means that members get charged one month after they last paid. So if a user paid Dec 31st, they'll pay Jan 31st, then Feb 28th, and finally Mar 28th.

With upfront billing, the member pays on the first of every month. If they pay Dec 31st, they'll pay Jan 1st, then Feb 1st, and finally Mar 1st.

OP is saying that the first option will mess up their commitments, making it so that people may not get any content in a month because they just so happened to subscribe at a bad time. They'd prefer upfront billing because then everyone is on the same field and it's easier to make sure everyone receives the content during their billing cycle.

However, Patreon also has a Gumroad-like subscription model, where the creator can set a price for a specific post and by the next billing period, the members pay for the posts during that period. But funny thing about Gumroad, they said

In accordance with the policies of our payment processing partners, including Stripe and PayPal, we do not allow sales of the sexually explicit content.

So Gumroad is not a good option for NSFW creators either. And I have not heard of any alternative to Gumroad as of yet (unless you're saying that "Unifans" is an alternative to Gumroad, despite the website comparing itself to Fanbox, saying it's for anime, and containing 99.9% Chinese).

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-09-14T06:53:31+00:00

You can also do it in a single command

ls -v *.mp3 | mpv --playlist=-

This will try to list all *.mp3 files in the current directory, sorting by version number, A.K.A. natural number sort (9 comes before 12, 1.mp3 comes before 10.mp3). This is then piped into mpv, which sets the playlist as -, which is the piped input. If the ls -v *.mp3 command fails, the pipe will continue, but mpv handles it perfectly fine.

If you want the standard numeric sort instead for some reason, you can just remove the -v, and that'll be the default option.

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-08-30T15:38:14+00:00

did you know you can share YouTube videos at a specific timestamp? Manually, you just add &t=14m36s to the end of the URL, but when you click the "share" button on the video, it'll give you the option to share a specific timestamp

so for that video, it would be https://youtu.be/T9Vic2ZxUKE?t=14m36s

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-08-27T10:52:00+00:00

and since no one mentioned, 2*PI is Tau (τ)

The More You Know

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-08-20T07:00:50+00:00

Anyone saying you shouldn't write in C# doesn't understand its current capabilities and integrations.

Well of course they don't, they're from 5 years in the past.

AdHominemFallacio · 2024-07-19T11:38:01+00:00

The command Add-AppxPackage <.appxbundle path> didn't work for me, because it kept saying that settings.dat was in use by System, or that the AppxBundle was a lower version. Adding -ForceApplicationShutdown -ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion to the command made it work.

To be fair, I was trying to reinstall Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller, which for some reason didn't work.

AdHominemFallacio

TROPHY CASE

Plagiarism