<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffcc"> On 08/01/2010 11:22 AM, Pastor JW wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:201008010922.14851.pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sunday, August 01, 2010 4:48:45 am Larry Shields wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/01/2010 06:38 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 01/08/2010 21:27, Larry Shields wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">*Well it seems that for some reason, when I finished installing a few files, it told me to use the autoremove using apt-get... So when I did that it wanted to remove one heck of alot of the programs that I have installed, and I do not want to loose those at all... * </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Why not? Why don't you want to "loose [sic] them"? If apt-get, or even Update Manager, is telling you that they are not required anymore, why do you want to keep them? </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">*Now it will not let me do any install, for it wants me to use the auto remove... * </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It's probably doing this because the programs which you want to keep will conflict with upgrades. So, the question is: why do you want to keep those you told should be removed? BC </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> *No it is not just wanting to just remove just one program... I was now just tring something else, it told me do this dpkg --configure -a So now, it is removing tons of things, KINO, fonts, just to man a few sinceit is going so fast, but hundreds of stuff... I am now waiting for it to finish, yet I have a feeling after I reboot, it will never come back the same as it was... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> What did you you find out? It IS daunting when you look at the list alright but for the most part all it is doing is removing obsolete and replacing it with the current versions for your install. I saw mine remove a whole lot of gnome stuff but I never use gnome so I thought it would clear some space maybe. Nope, actually took slightly more and I still have gnome only now it is 10.04 rather than 8.04!! </pre> </blockquote> Hello, Well too answer your question..I have rebooted my system, it is running as it has always... But when using the autoremove command, it did in-fact remove one heck of a lot of programs, but as they were removed it had gone by so fast I have no idea what has gone...So be it, not much else that I can do... I will if needed, then add the programs later... Thanks Kary <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Powered by Debian/GNU/Linux by Ubuntu ver 10.4 Lucid "Ultimate Edition 2.7" 73 de Larry/wd9esu 34yr's A.R.O. Reg# Linux User 484593 "This is Linux Country, on a quiet night you can hear WINDOZE ! Systems REBOOTING !!" GPG Fingerprint: A4D2 BFC2 B21B 8F7A C336 EFDC 7039 3CA5 3332 076E Public Key available from subkeys.pgp.net </pre> </body> </html>