This has been fixed recently. Wait for your mirror to catch up. Also the "=" character puts a package on hold. This will stop it from updating. On 07-Dec-98 Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > How can I prevent dselect from wanting to remove crucial packges on my > "potato" system? The problem seems to be related to the libc6/dpkg issue. > > I currently have libc6-2.07u-6 and dpkg 1.4.0.31 installed. >