On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:28:34PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I want sysvinit, not systemd
Should be easy. > I ran 'aptitude install sysvinit-core'. > This gives me another screen full of text [...] > Now I get a full screen of packages to be removed. [...] I think the basic problem here is that you used aptitude instead of apt-get. Aptitude is probably not very well tested for this switch-over, and seems to be trying to out-clever itself. Just use "apt-get install sysvinit-core" like the bot factoid says.