On 2010-12-13 02:55 +0100, Frank Church wrote:

> I was paring down my installation and  the command for gcc-4.2-base more or
> less threatened to wipe out everything on the server.
>
> apt-get purge gcc-4.2-base
>
> Is that the norm, or is it due to a corrupted package database?

My hunch is that the libgcc1 package (required by libc6, among others)
still depends on gcc-4.2-base, which means that your system is not up to
date.  What does "apt-cache policy libgcc1" print?

Sven


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