Gutsy upgrade nightmare

[Art Edwards]

texlive-lang-french will now neither install nor de-install (using
apt-get, dpkg, dselect). In fact, the only way I made progress was to
"hold" that package in dselect.

emacs dies during install. I'm now working on my Feisty desktop where
everything still works. When I get the display working on the laptop, I
will attach the lines from installation.

It appears that Ubuntu has made Xgl default, all in the name of eye-candy?

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 23:41 -0700, Art Edwards wrote:
>> After that little fiasco, I have had difficulties with
>> texlive
>> emacs
>> xemacs
>>
>> These are pretty basic Linux/Unix tools. How could these have gotten
>> screwed up?
> 
> Hard to say since you provide no details about what is wrong with them.
> 
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