I've just done an upgrade to slink, but when I go into dselect I observe that there are a number of obsolete packages:
--- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- ----- Obsolete/local Required packages ----- ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base ------- *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14 <none> *** Req base slang0.99.38 0.99.38-6 <none> ----- Obsolete/local Standard packages ----- ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section devel ------- *** Std devel ncurses3.4-d 1.9.9g-8.10 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section mail ------- *** Std mail elm 2.4pl25-6 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section utils ------- *** Std utils lsof 4.28-3 <none> ----- Obsolete/local Optional packages ----- ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section contrib/graphics ------- *-- Opt contrib/ gdk-imlib-no 1.3-3 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section contrib/libs ------- *** Opt contrib/ kdelibs0g 980312-5 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section games ------- *** Opt games filters 1.6 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs ------- *** Opt libs newt0.21 0.21-8 <none> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section x11 ------- *** Opt x11 xfntbig 3.3.2.3-2 <none> ----- Obsolete/local Extra packages ----- ------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section contrib/x11 ------- *** Xtr contrib/ kdebase 980312-8 <none> Can I purge them all? Now when I try and purge "base", I get: # dpkg --remove base dpkg: error processing base (--remove): This is an essential package - it should not be removed. Errors were encountered while processing: base Now I presume I should do some kind of forced purge, but I'm a bit reluctant to remove an "essential" package --- is it okay to do this? Thanks, Mark. _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"