I was trying to execute a windows executable with wine. The terminal output said I had a 64 bit wine installation and I needed to install the 32 bit wine with the following command:
apt-get install wine32:i386 I was running it in the small dropdown terminal from Dolphin, so I didn't see the whole output at once, but since this was (as I thought) a normal operation, just installing a 32 bit version of wine alongside the 64 bit version, I didn't think much of it and said yes. There were no warnings besides the usual apt warnings. Then I noticed a message pop up in the terminal talking about how applications using phonon will remain with no sound and I just thought that meant 32 bit applications will have no sound, so I said OK. After that, I noticed a lot of stuff getting removed and leaving the system in a broken state and I realized something was wrong. At the end of it, the terminal disappeared and now many basic Plasma applications are gone. I haven't closed any applications or logged off yet, so I don't know the full extent of the damage, but that really got me by surprise. I know you should always pay attention when running apt, so this is kinda on me, but I really wouldn't expect a simple operation like this would break the system, much less one explicitly recommended by the system itself. How do I walk back from this? -- Luiz Romário Santana Rios
