On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 02:47:58AM -0500, Brian Chrzanowski wrote:
> Hello debian heroes,
> I have a problem with installing packages with aptitude, and dpkg. I'm
> running debian 7.8, but the problem arose when I foolishly canceled
> "apt-get autoremove" when I saw that gnome was getting removed. Now, every
> time I attempt to install any package, I see something like the
> following: [1]http://paste.debian.net/151248/ ;
> All help and input is appreciated.
Autoremove will uninstall packages that are A) installed, B) marked as
automatically installed (in other words, not explicitly required by the
administrator) and C) not depended upon by any other package. So, if
it's trying to remove gnome, it's because the system thinks it's not
not needed. The simplest solution there is to "apt-get install gnome"
which should unmark it as automatic as well as making sure it's fully
installed.
As to the error (which, given the paste was only a dozen lines, you
probably should have put directly into your mail), check that your
system is properly multiarch-enabled ('dpkg --version' should report
1.16.2 or later, 'dpkg --print-architecture' should print your preferred
architecture and 'dpkg --print-foreign-architectures' should print your
alternative architecture(s)).
You might also try running "dpkg --audit" to see what state your system
is in (no output is good output :)
> -A helpless Debian user
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://paste.debian.net/151248/
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