Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages

[Gena Batyan <gbatyan@gmx.net>]

pier wrote:
> Gena Batyan wrote:
>
> > I'm using unstable and I have encountered a strange situation a few times.
> > When trying to install a package using apt-get, it says among other
> > things 'following packages will be REMOVED: ...' and this list is HUGE!
> > I'll give an example. I'm trying to install gaim, which depends on the
> > package libaspell15c2
> > What in the name of god is going on here??? How can a package request
> > deinstallation of almost a complete system, most of the packages
> > scheduled for removal have NOTHING to do with the library.
>
> Have you tried to do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade before?
> Or an apt-get -f install?
Sure, I'm doing it almost every day in the hope that it gets resolved.
Nothing helps