Installation Issue

[J]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 15:14, Mark Apel <mapel at cals.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I recently reformatted my Dell 4500S desktop computer (1.76 Gigahertz
> Celeron processor) with Ubuntu 10.10 and despite an error message saying
> certain packages couldn’t be removed, things seemed to work just fine.

I'm confused... if you reformatted, how did you get this error?
Formatting doesn't delete packages, it overwrites the disk with a new,
empty filesystem.