On Mi, 09 iul 14, 11:03:48, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > I found that the problem appeared to be a circular dependency. When I > removed all the packages in the dependency loop in a single operation > things went much more smoothly. > > dpkg -B -r libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java openjdk-6-jre libaccess-bridge-java-jni Depends: libaccess-bridge-java but libaccess-bridge-java Recommends: libaccess-bridge-java-jni So technically there's no circular dependency, but unfortunately this doesn't help with removals. Maybe try with --no-install-recommends ? I can't find a connection to openjdk-6-jre, however there seems to be a circular dependency between openjdk-6-jre-headless and openjdk-6-jre-lib, still present in sid. > Debian is commended for how easy it has made it to install packages. > It would be commended still more if it were as easy to remove them. There are people looking into issues like these, but they might be unavoidable in a distribution the size of Debian. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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