hi, on a debian/sarge
obsdw14:~# aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Hit http://obsapt sarge/main Packages Hit http://obsapt sarge/main Release Hit http://obsapt sarge/contrib Packages Hit http://obsapt sarge/contrib Release Hit http://obsapt sarge/non-free Packages Hit http://obsapt sarge/non-free Release Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/main Release Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/contrib Release Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/non-free Packages Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/non-free Release Hit http://obsapt sarge/obs Packages Hit http://obsapt sarge/obs Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done obsdw14:~# aptitude upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done obsdw14:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done obsdw14:~# aptitude install -R fai Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: akode altgcc aspell-en build-essential cdrdao dia dia-common dia-libs digikamimageplugins eject esound-clients fam gimp-help-en gimp-svg gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits gstreamer0.8-a52dec gstreamer0.8-aa gstreamer0.8-caca gstreamer0.8-cdparanoia gstreamer0.8-dv gstreamer0.8-dvd gstreamer0.8-festival gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs gstreamer0.8-gsm gstreamer0.8-hermes gstreamer0.8-jpeg gstreamer0.8-mikmod gstreamer0.8-mpeg2dec gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-sdl gstreamer0.8-sid gstreamer0.8-speex gstreamer0.8-swfdec gstreamer0.8-theora gstreamer0.8-x gthumb gtk-engines-industrial gtk-engines-smooth gtk-smooth-themes hermes1 imagemagick jackd kde-i18n-de kde-i18n-fr kde-i18n-it kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdevelop3-doc kdvi kghostview khelpcenter kipi-plugins kregexpeditor kviewshell ldso libadns1-bin libatk1.0-data libavc1394-0 libbz2-dev libc5 libc5-altdev libcdio3 libcompress-zlib-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdv-bin libdv4 libft-perl libgdk-pixbuf2 libglib2.0-data libgsm1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libieee1284-3 libiso9660-3 libjpeg-progs libkcddb1 libkscan1 libmagick++6 libmail-sendmail-perl libnet-dns-perl liboggflac1 liboil0.3 libpaper-utils libpcre3-dev libpstoedit0 libqt3-compat-headers libreadline5-dev librsvg2-bin libsamplerate0 libsane libsasl2-modules libsidplay1-c102 libsndfile1 libsvga1 libswfdec0.3 libtool libttf2 libvcdinfo0 libwmf-bin libwxgtk2.4-python locales lzop miscfiles nautilus-cd-burner openoffice.org-mimelnk perl-doc perl-suid perlmagick psfontmgr pstoedit psutils python-imaging python-profiler python-xml python2.3-f2py python2.3-iconvcodec python2.3-xml r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex refblas3-dev resolvconf samba-common sane-utils sharutils sketch smbclient spamassassin spamc tetex-doc texi2html ttf-thryomanes unzip vcdimager videolan-doc x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-konsole xli The following NEW packages will be installed: fai The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: bootp dhcp3-server fai-kernels rsh-server syslinux tftpd tftpd-hpa 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 139 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 597kB of archives. After unpacking 326MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n why do suddenly I get such kind of behaviour. it's getting me nuts. I'm wanting to install fai without the recomended package. Because this machines was installed with fai. I specified to use aptitude as the system to install package with fai. does some one know understand this ? Regards Cedric -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]