On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:23:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/08/07 18:54, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I think I have something basically wrong with my system. > > [...] > > > > Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove > > 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right > > to me so I don't use it. > > > > Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by, > > "Format the hard drive and reinstall"? > > Well, you actually *might* have a hardware issue. RAM, mobo or CPU > heat issues are the usual suspects. > > Barring that, though, you could purge your system down to the bare > essentials (which is extraordinarily small), do the apt-clean, > apt-get upgrade, then reinstall all your packages (the list for > which you saved before The Great Purge).
if you go this route, use dpkg --get-selections > my_pre-purge_selections followed by dpkg --set-selections < my_pre-purge_selections apt-get dselect-upgrade A
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