[ATrpms-users] Re: Help me understand why apt wants to remove all these packages

[Michael Blandford]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>
>Ouch, that looks ugly. In order to reduce the possible borken
>packages, could you first
>
>apt-get upgrade?
>
>and then apt-get install a few explicitely? One of them is causing the
>desaster, and we need to find the bad guy^Wpackage.
>  
>

Yuck,

now it is even worse.

I did:

apt-get upgrade and it installed a few packages.  I forgot to capture 
the output

The following packages were not upgraded so I did them by hand.
apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxslt libxslt-devel

util-linux was the only one remaining from apt-get upgrade that was held 
back.  I installed it.
apt-get install util-linux

It replaced mount and something else. 

Here is what I have now:

[root at bobafett mikey]# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
[root at bobafett mikey]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  Guppi-devel XFree86 XFree86-tools XFree86-twm XFree86-xdm bind 
control-center
  desktop-printing devlabel eog ethereal ethereal-gnome fam-devel 
firstboot gal-devel
  gdm gedit glade2 gnome-print gnome-print-devel gnome-session gpdf 
gthumb gtkhtml
  gtkhtml-devel gtksourceview gtoaster hwbrowser iptables isdn4k-utils 
kbd kde
  kdeaddons kdeadmin kdeartwork kdebase kdebindings kdetoys kdeutils 
kdeutils-devel
  kernel#2.4.22-1.2188.nptl_48.rhfc1.at 
kernel#2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at
  kernel-module-lm_sensors-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl_48.rhfc1.at
  kernel-module-lm_sensors-2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at
  kernel-module-nvidia-graphics-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl_48.rhfc1.at
  kernel-module-nvidia-graphics5336-2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at 
kernel-pcmcia-cs
  kplayer lesstif lesstif-devel libgnomedb libgnomeprint libgnomeprint22
  libgnomeprintui libgnomeprintui22 libpcap lilo mkbootdisk mkinitrd 
mtr-gtk musicman
  nautilus nautilus-media nfs-utils openssh openssh-askpass 
openssh-askpass-gnome
  openssh-clients openssh-server pciutils planner prelink quota 
redhat-config-bind
  redhat-config-boot redhat-config-date redhat-config-httpd 
redhat-config-keyboard
  redhat-config-language redhat-config-mouse redhat-config-network
  redhat-config-network-tui redhat-config-nfs redhat-config-packages
  redhat-config-printer redhat-config-printer-gui redhat-config-proc
  redhat-config-rootpassword redhat-config-samba redhat-config-securitylevel
  redhat-config-securitylevel-tui redhat-config-services 
redhat-config-soundcard
  redhat-config-users redhat-config-xfree86 redhat-logviewer rhn-applet 
rp-pppoe
  synaptic tcpdump thinkeramik tightvnc-server tv-fonts up2date 
up2date-gnome usermode
  usermode-gtk vconfig xawtv xinitrc xisdnload yp-tools ypbind
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  kernel#2.4.22-1.2188.nptl_48.rhfc1.at mkinitrd (due to
  kernel#2.4.22-1.2188.nptl_48.rhfc1.at) 
kernel#2.4.22-1.2194.nptl_50.rhfc1.at
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Michael