On Wednesday 27 April 2011 10:19:44 pm Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. April 2011 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> > Would letting apt-get or aptitude uninstall everything it wants then
> > trying to reinstall it all? I don't hold a lot of hope for this as this
> > is what I was planning to do with the packages for the dist-upgrade, but
> > this didn't work out so well...
>
> Do so, but keep notes what it does. You could try aptitude and reinstall
> the trinity stuff that got uninstalled in a second pass.

+1, don't worry about uninstalling packages, you can always install them again  if 
needed. I have succesfullycompletely remove X and all gui apps, down to a base 
Debian install and re-purposed a box.

-- 
Peace,

Greg