I did "dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base". All seems to be well! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows > up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as > "essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion. > Should I force the removal? > > Bob