On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > That does not make sense. Probably your package indexes are messed > up. Try running 'apt-get update' again and see if that resolves the > problem. If not then try a different mirror. Somehow your list of > what is essential has been blown up. > > > Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; particulaly losing apt > > would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? > > Not here. > > Bob
As I've said in another post, the problem has now resolved itself. I still don't know why. It did come back after another refresh but there had been seveeral previouly which didn't fix it. Another mystery ... -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130605173030.gg23...@acampbell.org.uk
