On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 01:01:45 -0800, D MacDougall wrote: > I put the on hold for a while but eventually I uninstalled > all the various display managers that I had installed then I was able to > uninstall the compilers. Then I reinstalled lightdm and it worked.
Good! > There now still one package installed that I can neither update nor > uninstall. > > It is in the Optional interpreters section. It is called: > > cpp-14-x86-6 GNU C preprocessor for x86_64-linux-gnu The C preprocessor is used by one of the X11 applications, for reasons that I cannot remember right at this moment. So, it's normal to have this, and to have something depending on it. Here's what I have: hobbit:~$ aptitude why cpp i xorg Depends x11-xserver-utils i A x11-xserver-utils Depends cpp > It's supposed to be updatable from 14.2.0-19 to 14.2.0-19cross which That sounds unlikely. Any part of a compiler with "cross" in its version number is probably intended for cross compilation, which is not what you want. > to be not available, but when I mark it to be uninstalled, it wants to also > uninstall these 7 packages. Yeah, don't do that. Keep cpp and its dependencies installed.
