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DimGR
06-09-2004, 05:25 PM
if i hit Y it gives me problems saying could not be upgraded etc. In fact i do not really want it so i tried to remove it but said could not be removed etc.
i tried dpkg purge remove ignore all the options i could think off but they did not do anything





uilding Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
cloop-utils imagemagick kismet libmagick6 libxft2
The following packages will be upgraded:
frozen-bubble-data <--------------------- this gives all the problems
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 5155kB of archives.
After unpacking 1649kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Markus
06-09-2004, 05:34 PM
This might help: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49164