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On 27/02/11 18:37, Rhia Knowles wrote: > > Debian Testing... might be the issue. Almost certainly. The point of testing is they integrate changes to APIs, so the dependencies between packages have to change and so they may occasionally be bad. Doesn't happen often, but if it will cause you undue pain, just stick with Squeeze. One thing that saved me a couple of times when I tracked sid (unstable) on my home desktop was snapshot.debian.org which allows you to recover a Debian release as it was on a specific date (sometimes to a more precise period). Of limited value for stable which typically only changes every few months but useful with testing and unstable. It is not so much occasionally it'll uninstall packages you want (you can easily reinstall those or refuse the upgrade), but sometimes the current state of testing or unstable is such you can't reinstall them afterwards because there is no combination of packages that satisfies all dependencies, or one of the packages disagrees with your hardware in some fundamental way (in one case my X driver didn't like my graphics card any more). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq