Ken Heard wrote:
[...]"I consequently installed four packages which had sdl in the name: libsdl1.2debian, libsdl1.2debian-alsa, libsdl-net1.2 and libsdl-sound1.2. I tried to purge these packages, but aptitude wanted to remove a whole series of other packages including grub and icedove. [...]
Run # aptitude keep-allfirst to avoid this problem (http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Aptitude_-_using_together_with_Synaptic_and_Apt-get)
-- Chris.