On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> was heard to say: > However, when I enter 'aptitude why-not locate' I'm told "Unable to find > a reason to remove locate." Just FYI, why-not tells you what would actively prevent the installation of a package (i.e., what conflicts with it). It would probably be better named what-conflicts. Daniel