Luckily I've already got the latest version of gdb installed, would I be right in thinking that if I hadn't then apt-get would still try to remove the offending packages before downloading gdb and thus be unable to complete the transaction?
I ask this question merely to help anyone else who may experience a similar problem. thanks for your continuing help David -- synaptic cannot remove fftw3 and libsdl-net1.2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/82851 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
