On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:21:36 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Same with aptitude, I can't remove it

That's unusual.  Are you sure, Gene?  I know that your system is not quite 
standard, but often in past Debian installs, not only has aptitude not been a 
dependency, it has not even been there and I have had to install it myself.  
In fact, there was a discussion quite recently on the Debian list as to 
whether aptitude should be installed by default.

Here is the first post in what turned out a fairly long thread.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/375717CA-88D6-4CF6-8D60-2A133DF3552F@...

Lisi