> I installed the AMD64 Debian on my AMD64 box (emachines T6520 by the > way). Ever since the time I installed it, everytime I ran apt-get, > I was given a couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer > needed and could be removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk > space would be freed.
Did you check these screenfuls to see if they contained some applications you like to use? > I sort of feel stupid about taking it's advice. It does appear I will > have to reinstall Debian because of it. (I thought Debian stable was > stable because it didn't have such serious problems as this. > Granted it didn't freeze up with an Amiga-style fireworks display, but > I still wish I had known what was going to happen.) My guess is that somehow some install you did in the past ended up removing the `gnome' metapackage (which doesn't itself hold any files), so that most of your desktop environment became "non-requested" and hence candidate for autoremove-deletion. Try "aptitude install gnome". Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org