On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > Now I am trying to do an apt-get upgrade of the system to slink. But > I get the following error: > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > getty > 235 packages upgraded, 53 newly installed, 44 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 57.3Mb/105Mb of archives. After unpacking 106Mb will be used. > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this is bad' > ?] > > So what is to be done with the getty package?
Haha! You are the first to encounter my new warning :> getty is one of them pesky obsolete essential packages, it is safe to continue and I think this may have been mentioned in the release notes Jason
