Quoth Joey Hess, > It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn't bother > to post the actual apt message or any useful diagnostic information, but > you might try removing base-config.
Sorry, didn't include the (quite long) output previously on the off chance that it was something simple/obvious. The full apt-get output is included below. [rei:~]% sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: a2ps acct adduser alien arts auctex balsa bonobo bsdmainutils bubblemon bug-buddy cdrdao chbg codecommander crypt++el data-dumper debconf debhelper debview dh-make dia djtools eeyes emacs20 emacsen-common emusic enlightenment enscript equivs esound esound-clients esound-common ethereal extace freeamp gaim-gnome gcd gcombust gdk-imlib-dev gdm gedit ghex ghostview gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree gimp1.1-perl glade-gnome gmc gnome-applets gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing gnome-guile gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-iconedit gnome-mahjongg gnome-media gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pilot gnome-pim gnome-pim-conduits gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomehack gnomeicu gnosamba gnotepad+ gnucash gnumeric gnuserv gpasman gphoto gqmpeg gqview grdb grip gs-aladdin gs-pdfencrypt gtk-engines-gtkstep gtk-engines-metal gtk-engines-notif gtk-engines-pixmap gtk-engines-redmond95 gtkfind gtm gtop guitar gv gxanim gxedit helix-sweetpill hyperlatex iceconf icewm-gnome imlib-dev imlib-progs kaiman kmid kmidi kmix kscd latex2html libapache-asp-perl libapache-dbi-perl libapache-dbilogger-perl libapache-mod-perl libcapplet-dev libcapplet0 libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libesd0 libesd0-dev libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgimp1.1 libgimp1.1-dev libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-dev libgnome-pilot-dev libgnome-pilot0 libgnome-vfs0 libgnome32 libgnomeprint12 libgnomeprint6 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-dev libgtkhtml4 libgtkhtml5 libgtkmm libgtkxmhtml1 libguilegtk0 libmedusa0 libnautilus0 libobgnome0 libobgtk1 libpaperg libpgperl libsdl1.0 libsdl1.1-dev libsmpeg0 libstorable-perl libterm-readkey-perl libwine libwine-dev libwmf0 libzvt2 lilo linpopup lynx magicfilter mailcrypt memprof mozilla mozilla-browser mpage mpg123-esd mswordview mtr mysql-client mysql-server nautilus netpbm pan pdl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-suid perl-5.005 perl-tk perlmagick pkg-order premail psgml pstoedit pstotext psutils python-gdk-imlib python-gnome python-gtk realplayer rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome sawfish sawfish-gnome sawfish-themes screem smpeg-gtv sound-monitor task-helix-core task-kdemultimedia task-tex telnetd timidity uae vim-gtk vlc vlc-gnome vlc-sdl webmagick wmakerconf wmmail wordinspect wxftp-gtk xalf xchat-gnome xemacs20-bin xemacs20-support xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support xfntil2 xlogmaster xmms xmms-dev xscreensaver xserver-xfree86 xwhois The following NEW packages will be installed: libperl5.6 perl perl-5.6 perl-modules The following packages have been kept back fetchmail kernel-image-2.2.17 The following packages will be upgraded acroread bsdutils catdoc cron debian-policy diff docbook-stylesheets eperl fftw2 file groff hdparm ibritish ispell libhdf4g libio-stringy-perl libmime-base64-perl libmime-perl libmldbm-perl libstringlist0 libtimedate-perl libxml-dev libxml1 mlock mount mutt net-tools oidentd pdksh perl-5.005-base perl-base shellutils ssystem stat sudo tcsh tcsh-i18n unhtml untex util-linux w3m wavtools wenglish xdaliclock xnetload 45 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 248 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 19.0MB of archives. After unpacking 528MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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