anyone running Kubuntu & vmware, or kubuntu & codeweavers?

[Art Alexion]

On Friday 30 March 2007 21:22, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> writes:
> > On Friday 30 March 2007 00:16, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> > My personal preference is to use aptitude(8) to install and manage
> >> > packages.  Aside from being a good and responsive curses UI it has the
> >> > nice feature of tracking automatically installed packages.
> >>
> >> You can also use these features from the command-line, with the same
> >> syntax as apt-get .  E.g.
> >>
> >> sudo aptitude install dependent-package
> >
> > I have read about the advantages of aptitude over apt-get before, but
> > understood that one must use one or the other and not both.
>
> Well, no.  You can use both of them at any time.  You will get less
> benefit from aptitude, but only just.
>
> > Before I first heard about these advantages, I had been using apt-get
> > extensively so I thought it was too late to change over.  If it is
> > advisable to change over, what would be the best strategy?
>
> Just change over.  Everything will work just fine. :)

OK, I tried to use aptitude today to do a routine update/upgrade.  Used 
aptitude's command line, rather than ncurses interface.  This is what I got:

$ sudo aptitude update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
<retrieving updates from repos, just like apt-get>

$ sudo aptitude upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  antlr db4.2-util dirmngr gjdoc jikes kandy lesstif1
  libgnujaxp-java libgnujaxp-jni libmad0-dev libmdbtools
  libopensc1 libpcsclite1 libpolyp0 libtiff-tools
  libxml-writer-perl python-uno python2.3-zopeinterface
  subversion superkaramba
The following packages will be upgraded:
  wine
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9489kB of archives. After unpacking 20.4MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

Looks like it wants to remove a lot of stuff that it shouldn't.  What's wrong?

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