Hello :) I did an apt-get update today on my alpha 'unstable' system and nearly required new trousers this morning when I almost pressed 'Y' to this little lot...
macha:/home/gdh/# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: adduser analog apache apache-common autoconf automake build-essential courier-imap cvs-buildpackage debhelper debiandoc-sgml debmake devscripts dh-make dlint docbook docbook-stylesheets docbook-to-man docbook-xml docbook2man docbook2texi dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp dpkg-perl dupload flexml horde imp jade kernel-package libapache-mod-ssl libdate-manip-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libdigest-md5-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libi18n-langtags-perl libmime-base64-perl libmldbm-perl libnet-perl libsgmls-perl libtext-format-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-dumper-perl libxml-generator-perl libxml-grove-perl libxml-node-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-perl libxml-rss-perl libxml-twig-perl libxml-writer-perl lintian listar-cgi mysql-client mysql-server openssl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.005 perl-5.6 php4 php4-imap php4-mysql qmail-src sgml-base sgml-data sgmlspl sgmltools-2 sp task-c++-dev task-c-dev task-debian-devel task-devel-common task-dns-server ucspi-tcp-src xaw-wrappers xaw3dg xbel xbel-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: libcap1 sfio1999 20 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 84 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 41.5MB of archives. After unpacking 80.9MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] I've had a fair amount of truck with apt and package problems before, but I have no idea where to start looking to fix this one? I'm open to suggestions! :) Kind regards, Gavin.