Hello, Per https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index1h2, you should be installing specific backports instead of all that are available. Specifically, this means you should run apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade without "-t stretch-backports". Likely what's happening is that apt installs some library backports which are incompatible with its stable version, causing packages depending on them to be removed. Best, James On 2018-05-07 04:21 PM, John Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I am on a fairly pure debian stretch xfce desktop, I added the > backports repo and because I just want to have all the upgraded > packages, so I did > > apt-get -t stretch-backports upgrade && apt-get -t stretch-backports > dist-upgrade > > some days ago (after putting backports repo into /etc/apt/sources.list). > > Until now that caused no problem and helped me to make the nvidia > hardware actually work with the driver version in backports, also I > like the 4.15 kernel very much as it seems to make the desktop > experience much smoother. So everything ok and a great system overall. > > However, today I just wanted to upgrade the same way (no special > reason, just routine upgrade) and apt-get wants to autoremove half of > the system and remove some important things - why? > > I paste the output of the command below - it would be really > appreciated if anybody would like to explain > * why that happens > * what went wrong > * how to fix that. > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main > contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates > main contrib non-free > # stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free > # backports > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free > > Thank you very much for your attention! > John > > root@stretch:~# apt-get -t stretch-backports dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... 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python-telepathy > python-utidylib python3-brlapi python3-cairo python3-cups > python3-cupshelpers python3-dbus python3-louis python3-pyatspi > python3-smbc python3-speechd python3-uno python3-xdg > qttranslations5-l10n quodlibet samba-libs socat speech-dispatcher > speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng > sphinx-rtd-theme-common system-config-printer > system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev > telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut udisks2 uno-libs3 ure > usb-modeswitch > usb-modeswitch-data vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base > vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-video-splitter > vlc-plugin-visualization x11-apps x11-session-utils xbrlapi > xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xinit xsane > xsane-common xserver-common xserver-xorg-legacy > Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia chromium default-java-plugin default-jre > geany-plugin-devhelp geany-plugin-markdown geany-plugin-webhelper > geany-plugins gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 > gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gvfs gvfs-daemons icedtea-8-plugin > icedtea-netx keepassxc libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni > libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libegl1-mesa libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx > libgl1-mesa-glx libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libglx0-glvnd-nvidia > libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libgtk-3-bin libqt5gui5 libqt5svg5 > libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 libreoffice-nlpsolver > libreoffice-script-provider-bsh libreoffice-script-provider-js > libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-wiki-publisher > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 lightning nvidia-driver > openjdk-8-jre primus primus-libs qt5-gtk-platformtheme > sugar-browse-activity task-desktop task-xfce-desktop thunderbird vlc > vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output > x11-utils xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all > xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-wacom > xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu > xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev > xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > xserver-xorg-video-nvidia xserver-xorg-video-qxl > xserver-xorg-video-radeon > xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libegl1 libgl1 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libllvm5.0 > The following packages will be upgraded: > libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libwayland-egl1-mesa > libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libxatracker2 mesa-va-drivers > mesa-vdpau-drivers > 9 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 70 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 30.4 MB of archives. > After this operation, 375 MB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? 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