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.