On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and > apt-get no longer complains. You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to work normally. On my sarge system 'at' and 'apt-get' work perfectly happy together. 'at' is an important package according to apt-cache: $ apt-cache show at Package: at Priority: important Section: admin Installed-Size: 204 Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 3.1.8-11 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), mail-transport-agent Filename: pool/main/a/at/at_3.1.8-11_i386.deb Size: 37918 MD5sum: b5cc860f93a0f25e71d92dad23988c12 Description: Delayed job execution and batch processing At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the future. . Use at to run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit Of course when at makes your apt system unstable its priority gets considerably lower. ;-) 'at' is depended on by the following packages: maurits@mauritsvanrees:~/tmp$ apt-cache rdepends at at Reverse Depends: usermin-at mirror lsb-core gato Most important at first glance seems to be lsb-core. From apt-cache show lsb-core: The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard core system that third-party applications written for Linux can depend upon. Okay, I don't have that one installed apparently; I'll go do that now. ;-) -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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