Can somebody please explain this? # sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # sudo apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # sudo aptitude -P upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. # sudo aptitude -P dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: communicator-smotif-477 libdvbpsi1 libgd1-noxpm libruby libxslt1 t1lib1 The following NEW packages will be installed: communicator communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 freetype2 gwm ldso libasn1-6-heimdal libbz2 libc-client2001 libdns8 libdvbpsi1 libecpg3 libelfg0 libepplet0 libevas0 libfltk1 libgc6 libgd1 libgd1-noxpm libgd2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgmp2 libgnutls5 libhdf4g libisc4 libncurses4 libnetpbm9 libopencdk4 libopenldap-runtime libopenldap1 libpcap0 libpgsql2 libpng3 libproplist0 libqt2 libruby libscrollkeeper0 libservlet2.3-java libsigc++0 libsnmp4.2 libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstringlist0 libungif3g libwmf0.2-2 libxaw6 libxmltok1 libxslt1 netscape netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-doc perl-5.005-suid perl-5.6 t1lib1 vflib2 xlib6g xlibmesa-dev xlibmesa3 xlibosmesa3 xlibs-dev xmhtml1 0 packages upgraded, 63 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8078kB/15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 41.4MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Notice this: # dpkg -l '*communicator*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ pn communicator <none> (no description available) pn communicator-b <none> (no description available) pn communicator-b <none> (no description available) un communicator-b <none> (no description available) pn communicator-n <none> (no description available) pn communicator-n <none> (no description available) pn communicator-n <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) pn communicator-s <none> (no description available) In fact, I do not know what any of those NEW packages to be installed are about. Do you? I know that this system has been upgraded since slink, and -- at one time -- I did have installed netscape* and communicator*; but, clearly these are all purged. What is this about? How can I correct this, so using aptitude on this box is less dangerous? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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