Quote Originally Posted by fingers99
Whatever I try to do, I can't seem to get rid of Xmovie which, in turn, means I can't install anything. Synaptic goes through the motions of fixing broken packages, removing Xmovie, but whenever I try to download something it's still there. Nothing will install, absolutely nothing.

Ideas, please.
The output of the actual apt-get command that is being used by synaptic would be helpful post what it tells you when you do apt-get --pruge remove xmovie and what it tells you when you try to install a program.