When I was moving OSMC from RPi2 to RP3 the other day I cloned the source SDcard in order to be able to go back fully in case something broke.
It seemed like it was all OK.
But then I discovered an $HOME/openvpn directory as well as /etc/openvpn/ containing files.
So I believed I had used this RPi previously with OpenVPN and decided to remove it. This is what happened:
osmc@rpi3-osmc:~$ sudo apt remove openvpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
armv7-bluez-osmc armv7-bluezalsa-osmc armv7-libass-osmc armv7-libcrossguid-osmc armv7-libnfs-osmc bluez cifs-utils dh-python gnupg-agent
..... lots of packages mentioned here ....
python3-lib2to3 python3.5 python3.5-minimal update-inetd wireless-firmware-osmc wpasupplicant
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
armv7-connman-osmc armv7-network-osmc openvpn rbp2-device-osmc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 39 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3524 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 41274 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing rbp2-device-osmc (1.5.7) ...
WARNING: You have tried to remove a package that is essential to OSMC's operation.
To undo these changes, run 'sudo apt-get -f install'.
dpkg: error processing package rbp2-device-osmc (--remove):
installed rbp2-device-osmc package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: armv7-connman-osmc: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
armv7-network-osmc depends on armv7-connman-osmc (>= 1.2.9-3).
At this point the RPi was unresponsive and could only be stopped by pulling power. And it would not start afterwards, or actually it started but with no networking at all! Could not access it via ssh as I usually do for all admin work.
I could only view it on the TV screen.
Luckily I had my cloned SDcard so I re-cloned it to the now defunct SDcard and I was in business again.
Question:
Is openvpn part of OSMC?
If not how can I safely remove it without causing the above crash again?
OSMC itself has been updated many times since first install on this device.