Re: Help for damaged package management

2005-10-09 Thread Bob Alexander
Mankuthimma wrote: Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE approximately 130 packages Most probably, you are missing a couple of gnome dependencies, try doing this # aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment OMG Mankuthimna !!!

Help for damaged package management

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear friends, I have reinstalled a Debian machine after having my laptop tracking unstable for a couple of years. This time I wanted a testing environment with only a few packages I need from unstable. I have tried using aptitude but now quit after it has taken a few liberties I did not appre