[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory T. Norris) wrote: >On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows >> up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as >> "essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion. >> Should I force the removal? > >I did "dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base". All seems >to be well!
I must say, I love what apt does in these circumstances: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! ncurses-base [...] You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' ?] -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
