no I don't want to uninstall everything!

[Phlip]

Ubuntu:

I was grooving with 8.10, and a colleague advised I upgrade to JJ. No prob; the 
upgrade went smoothly. (Uh, except for that f---ing kwallet reappearing. 'nuff 
said!)

Then I get the idea to upgrade one of my development libraries:

$ sudo aptitude install libopengl-ruby1.9

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

   abakus{u} aqbanking-tools{u} asymptote{u} asymptote-doc{u} barcode{u} 
basket{u} context{u} creox{u} cscope{u} dblatex{u} dvipdfmx{u} dvipng{u} 
exuberant-ctags{u} feynmf{u}
   flac{u} giftd{u} gmessage{u} gpsim{u} gputils{u} gputils-common{u} 
gputils-doc{u} guarddog{u} guidedog{u} guile-1.8{u} guile-1.8-libs{u} hddtemp{u} 
hotswap-gui{u}
   hotswap-text{u} i2e{u} jackd{u} kaffeine{u} kasablanca{u} kbarcode{u} 
kbibtex{u} kbiff{u} kboincspy{u} kde-core{u} kdebase-workspace{u} kdirstat{u} 
keep{u} keybled{u}
   kfocus{u} kftpgrabber{u} kid3{u} kile{u} klibido{u} klog{u} klogic{u} 
kmplayer{u} kmplayer-base{u} kmymoney2{u} kmymoney2-common{u} 
kmymoney2-plugin-aqbanking{u}
   knetfilter{u} knmap{u} knutclient{u} komba2{u} komparator{u} kover{u} 
kpar2{u} kphone{u} kphotoalbum{u} kpowersave{u} kpsk{u} krecipes{u} 
krecipes-data{u} krusader{u}
   ksensors{u} ksimus{u} ksimus-boolean{u} ksimus-datarecorder{u} 
ksimus-floatingpoint{u} ksudoku{u} ktechlab{u} kvdr{u} kvirc{u} kvirc-data{u} 
kvpnc{u} kwave{u}
   kwavecontrol{u} lacheck{u} latex-beamer{u} latex-xcolor{u} latex2html{u} 
libaqbanking-data{u} libaqbanking-plugins-libgwenhywfar47{u} libaqbanking20{u}
   libaqbanking20-plugins{u} libaqbanking20-plugins-qt{u} libaqhbci13{u} 
libaqofxconnect4{u} libcddb2{u} libcelt0{u} libchipcard-ctapi0{u} 
libchipcard-data{u}
   libchipcard-libgwenhywfar47-plugins{u} libchipcard-tools{u} libchipcardc2{u} 
libchipcardd0{u} libdb4.6++{u} libexempi3{u} libffado0{u} libfreebob0{u} libgift0{u}
   libgiftproto0{u} libgpod3{u} libgtkextra-x11-2.0-1{u} libgwenhywfar47{u} 
libhamlib2{u} libid3-3.8.3c2a{u} libiec61883-0{u} libimlib2{u} libjack0{u} 
libkdcraw3{u}
   libkdegames5{u} libkipi0{u} libkpathsea4{u} libktoblzcheck1c2a{u} 
liblo0ldbl{u} liblrdf0{u} libnetpbm10{u} libopenft-gift{u} libpar2-0{u} 
libpoppler-qt2{u} libqbanking5{u}
   libqca1c2{u} libqscintilla7{u} libqt3-mt-mysql{u} libqt3-mt-sqlite{u} 
librsync1{u} libsensors4{u} libsigsegv0{u} libsndfile1{u} libtie-ixhash-perl{u} 
libtse3-0.3.1c2a{u}
   libxml++2.6-2{u} libxml-twig-perl{u} libxml-xpath-perl{u} libyaz3{u} 
lilypond{u} lilypond-data{u} lilypond-doc{u} lirc{u} lm-sensors{u} lmodern{u} 
luatex{u} mailody{u}
   menu{u} netpbm{u} nmap{u} noteedit{u} noteedit-data{u} perl-doc{u} pgf{u} 
poster{u} preview-latex-style{u} prosper{u} ps2eps{u} psutils{u} python-pylibacl{u}
   python-pyxattr{u} qca-tls{u} qjackctl{u} rdiff-backup{u} regina-normal{u} 
rosegarden{u} rosegarden-data{u} rsibreak{u} smb4k{u} sndfile-programs{u} 
sqlite{u} swh-plugins{u}
   taskjuggler{u} tellico{u} tellico-data{u} tellico-scripts{u} tex-common{u} 
tex4ht{u} tex4ht-common{u} texinfo{u} texlive{u} texlive-base{u} texlive-base-bin{u}
   texlive-base-bin-doc{u} texlive-bibtex-extra{u} texlive-common{u} 
texlive-doc-base{u} texlive-extra-utils{u} texlive-font-utils{u} 
texlive-fonts-recommended{u}
   texlive-fonts-recommended-doc{u} texlive-generic-extra{u} 
texlive-generic-recommended{u} texlive-humanities{u} texlive-humanities-doc{u} 
texlive-lang-cyrillic{u}
   texlive-latex-base{u} texlive-latex-base-doc{u} texlive-latex-extra{u} 
texlive-latex-extra-doc{u} texlive-latex-recommended{u} 
texlive-latex-recommended-doc{u}
   texlive-math-extra{u} texlive-metapost{u} texlive-metapost-doc{u} 
texlive-pictures{u} texlive-pictures-doc{u} texlive-pstricks{u} 
texlive-pstricks-doc{u} texlive-xetex{u}
   tipa{u} tora{u} trans-de-en{u} tripod{u} v4l-conf{u} vdr{u} wordtrans-data{u} 
wordtrans-kde{u} yakuake{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 219 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
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What. The. Hell.

Good thing I was paying attention - there isn't even an option for "uh, no, try 
again". I was about to uninstall everything, all the way down thru kde-core.

Is this pilot error? How do I install my library already??

-- 
   Phlip
   http://www.zeroplayer.com/