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apt-get/dselect problem



I am using unstable, and someone told me to run a dist-upgrade because of some problems i had.
I did a apt-get update and then upgrade first, but there were some unmet dependencies and
apt told me to run apt-get -f install. but if I do this I get a very weird error message, never saw that
before, and it seems that I can't correct it...
Maybe someone can help me, and please its important that you CC MESSAGE me a reply, to c.b@gmx.at
thanks very much


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storm:/home/solars# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libtiff3g tk8.3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  adduser at autoconf automake blt-dev dlint dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp dpkg-perl g++
  kernel-package libc6-dev libcupsys2 libdb2 libdb2-util libdb3 libldap2
  libltdl0-dev libncurses4-dev libnet-perl libnet-telnet-perl libnss-db
  libpam-modules libsasl-modules libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-dev
  libterm-slang-perl libterm-stool-perl libtool login logrotate mailx man-db
  mutt nmh passwd perl perl-5.005 pidentd ppp pppconfig proftpd samba-common
  sendmail shellutils smbclient smbfs ssh task-c++-dev task-c-dev
  task-devel-common task-tcltk-dev tcl8.2-dev tcl8.3-dev telnetd tk8.2-dev
  tktable-dev xlib6g-dev xlibs-dev xmh
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libtiff3g tk8.3
The following held packages will be changed:
  libdb3 libpam-modules
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  libnss-db libdb2 (due to libnss-db) libdb2-util (due to libnss-db) login
  libpam-modules (due to login) shellutils
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 60 to remove and 81  not upgraded.
5 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/800kB of archives. After unpacking 69.0MB will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

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