Aptitude wants to remove "ubuntu-desktop"

[Antony Gelberg]

Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:
> I am moving from Debian to Ubuntu. To remove Serpentine, I tried
> "aptitude purge serpentine", but it says:
> 
> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
>   ubuntu-desktop
> 
> I guess "ubuntu-desktop" is an improtant package. I tried
> "aptitude install ubuntu-desktop" and then tried to purge Serpentine, but it
> still wants to remove "ubuntu-desktop". How should I proceed?
> 

Then try aptitude purge serpentine ubuntu-desktop+ .