9.10 to 10.4 upgrade problem

[Tom H]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:51 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have tried both online and disk upgrades. I get the following message:
>
> An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
> The package 'ubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the
> removal blacklist.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to address this?

It's a metapackage.

Remove it from the blacklist, uninstall it, re-install it (in order to
get future updates), and blacklist it again.