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