Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> writes: > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > computer! You did that. Aptitude warned you about this after the first time you hit g. You told aptitude that it's idea of whats going to happen is correct and it g to go ahead anyway. In the future, pay attention to what your computer is telling you. 8:o) > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package > initscripts > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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