aptitude; First do no harm.

[Martin McCormick]

Leonard Chatagnier writes:
> Must be something else wrong.  I just installed openntpd with aptitude:
> sudo aptitude install openntpd and it simply installed that one package 
> as expected.  I'm on kubuntu desktop though but have used aptitude 
> primarily but also use synaptic, apt-get and most of the other gui.  
> Using simulate is a good idea that might show something why packages are 
> being removed.

	Thanks for all the good suggestions, especially
reminding me of -s to simulate. After discussing it with a
coworker, I first:

aptitude -q9 -s safe-upgrade

It would have still deleted those 507 packages as before, but
would upgrade 107 packages so after a deep breath, I ran:

sudo aptitude -q9 safe-upgrade

It did as expected. After that, I installed ntp with no
surprises, then rebooted. It's alive!

	I am not sure what happened before as I wasn't the one
who built it originally. It seems to be fine and aptitude
now behaves totally normally. All is well. Again, many thanks.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group