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Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages



Anthony Campbell wrote:
> If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which
> were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list
> includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common.

That does not make sense.  Probably your package indexes are messed
up.  Try running 'apt-get update' again and see if that resolves the
problem.  If not then try a different mirror.  Somehow your list of
what is essential has been blown up.

> Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these; particulaly losing apt
> would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this behaviour?

Not here.

Bob

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