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Installing libwacom-surface on Ubuntu 22.04 removes gnome desktop #799

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installing the libwacom-surface package on ubuntu 22.04 removes gnome desktop packages and breaks gnome, not installing this package stops this issue from happening

  • Hardware model: surface go version 1
  • Kernel version: 5.15.0-25-generic
  • Distribution: Ubuntu 22.04 - Gnome 42

apt output:

mitch@mitch-Surface-Go:~$ sudo apt install linux-image-surface linux-headers-surface iptsd libwacom-surface
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apg cheese-common gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-gck-1
gir1.2-gcr-3 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-3.0
gir1.2-graphene-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gir1.2-gweather-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0
gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0 gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0
gkbd-capplet gnome-bluetooth-3-common gnome-control-center-faces
gnome-online-accounts gnome-shell-common gnome-video-effects
gstreamer1.0-pipewire libclutter-1.0-common libcogl-common libcogl-pango20
libcogl-path20 libcogl20 libcolord-gtk1 libfreerdp-server2-2 libgdm1
libgnome-bluetooth-3.0-13 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8
libgoa-backend-1.0-1 libgsound0 libgssdp-1.2-0 libgupnp-1.2-1
libgupnp-av-1.0-3 libgupnp-dlna-2.0-4 libmtdev1 libpulse-mainloop-glib0
librygel-core-2.6-2 librygel-db-2.6-2 librygel-renderer-2.6-2
librygel-server-2.6-2 libsysmetrics1 libvncserver1 libxcb-res0
libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxklavier16 mobile-broadband-provider-info
mutter-common network-manager-gnome power-profiles-daemon python3-certifi
python3-macaroonbakery python3-protobuf python3-pymacaroons python3-requests
python3-rfc3339 python3-tz rygel switcheroo-control xwayland
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
linux-headers-5.16.17-surface linux-image-5.16.17-surface
notification-daemon policykit-1-gnome
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cheese gdm3 gir1.2-mutter-10 gnome-control-center gnome-initial-setup
gnome-remote-desktop gnome-settings-daemon gnome-shell
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0 libcheese-gtk25
libcheese8 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gst-3.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0
libinput-bin libinput10 libmutter-10-0 libwacom-bin libwacom-common
libwacom9 ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-desktop-minimal ubuntu-session
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-libinput
The following NEW packages will be installed:
iptsd libwacom-surface linux-headers-5.16.17-surface linux-headers-surface
linux-image-5.16.17-surface linux-image-surface notification-daemon
policykit-1-gnome
0 to upgrade, 8 to newly install, 28 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
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After this operation, 355 MB of additional disk space will be used.

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