On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install > those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: > > # apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6
Which testing mirror are you using? That version of apt should be in testing. > Note, selecting apt instead of libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 > apt is already the newest version. And it looks like it is. What happens if you try to install aptitude? > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: This is not a failure. > texlive-common update-notifier-common preview-latex-style texlive lmodern > texpower-manual texlive-pstricks texlive-base-bin texpower > texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended > texlive-humanities-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-recommended > texlive-latex-recommended-doc dvipdfmx latex-beamer prosper tipa > texlive-latex-base-doc latex-xcolor python-vte texlive-fonts-recommended-doc > pgf texlive-humanities texlive-base ps2eps texlive-doc-base > texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-pictures > texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures-doc > texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-generic-extra tex-common lacheck It looks like something used to require texlive and now it doesn't, or it got removed. update-notifier-common is only used by update-notifier, and I'd assume that if it's unused, you probably don't have update-notifier installed, so you don't need it. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org