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I wanted to purge/reinstall the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator package, but when I did that, two other packages ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-gnome-desktop got purged with it.

So I restarted, thinking that I probably need to reinstall those, but everything seems ok! I always thought those two are some critical packages.

Should I reinstall them?

I have 18.04 installed.

pomsky
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Mahmoud Gudarzi
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  • ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-gnome-desktop are metapackages. That is, they don't contain any software, but are set to depend on the packages which make up the desktop. So when you install ubuntu-desktop you will automatically get all the necessary packages, because they are dependencies. When you removed appindicator, ubuntu-desktop got removed too because it no longer had all the necessary dependencies. – AlexP May 31 '18 at 23:28
  • If you are reinstalling that appindicator package, I don't see the downside to reinstalling the metapackages, and putting your system back in its prior state. – Organic Marble Jun 01 '18 at 01:42

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