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On 27 February 2011 18:22, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27/02/11 17:08, Rhia Knowles wrote: >> >> Never again.... > > Did you figure out what prompted the issue? apt-get and aptitude (which > is to be preferred these days) rarely mess up badly if the packages are > in reasonable shape. Although both do tell you what they intend to do > and ask for confirmation by default. > > I've had a couple of similar issues, almost always including packages > from third party repositories, or when tracking Debian Unstable or > Debian testing. Debian Testing... might be the issue. Lappy's running Squeeze and has been for a while. As in about a month or so before it was 'released' And as to what it was going to do, it printed up a huge and cryptic list of mostly libs, i scanned, didnt look like anything too dangerous... but there must have been backscroll i didnt read which had actual programs (Like Tomboy- which i use for reminders) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq