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I have aptitude 0.6.2.1 and I'm on Debian Sid. I installed it around a few months ago. I never usually upgrade my packages, and now there are 985 recommended upgradeable packages.

I just tried to install python-lxml but in doing so and selecting it with + it recommends that 30-40 packages be removed including gnome-audio and gedit. It seems to also force python to update from my 2.5.4-9 to 2.6.6-3+.

Obviously I do not want to remove gnome-audio and gedit so what is my course of action? Should I upgrade all my packages before trying to install this package which requires these dependencies which break my core system packages?

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Ask this on the Unix and Linux site. – dv3500ea Nov 4 '10 at 19:42
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I am sorry to close this because I do believe in helping people where we can but our remit here is pretty exclusively Ubuntu. If we don't stick to that and allow other Distributions (however similar), people will the topics here much less relevant and I think that hurts our long term aims to become the best knowledge-base for Ubuntu. I hope you do get this fixed and again, I'm sorry it can't be here. – Oli♦ Nov 4 '10 at 20:30
Alternative asking points: Debian Q&A, Unix and Linux site, Server Fault – Marco Ceppi♦ Nov 4 '10 at 21:18
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closed as off topic by dv3500ea, Jorge Castro, fluteflute, mgunes, Oli♦ Nov 4 '10 at 20:28

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Those types of problems are to be expected when running Debian SID. That's the reason it's called "unstable".

If you want a stable system with reasonably recent packages, you should rather install a proper Ubuntu release. If you prefer to have complete control about what packages are being installed, try the ubuntu minal ISO, which doesn't come with ubuntu's default package selection.

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