Re-creation of someone else’s post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it
I don’t have a printer.
I don’t like open ports.
Decides to remove CUPS.
“apt list -i *cups*”
There are like 7 CUPS packages and dependencies.
for each package “apt remove cups --simulate”
Get to package 6 and decide ‘Ok. No major issues, looks fine.’
For the first 6 packages “sudo apt remove CUPS”
This is easy and painless!
On 7th …
Removing cups-pk or some shit… Removing mint-common… Removing cinnamon-desktop…
Oh, fuck
When I was new to Linux I broke EVERYTHING.
Often.
The more you break, the more you learn.
Nobody tells me I can’t modify this file.
Eg. I once accidentally chmodded the entire root directory. (Recursion incident)
Linux does not like when the root fs permissions are ALL changed.
I had no internet at the time. And no idea what timeshift was.
Thankfully, I had a library card.
Learned a lot about permissions that month.
(I enjoy doing things the hard way)
Did you manage to get your system working again? Iirc I did the same on Arch a few years ago and it wasn’t too bad to restore the system after looking at the permissions on a fresh install (maybe a container or vm, idr).
