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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vd2y59sx....@turtle.gmx.de