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linuxmce uninstall led to inconsistent state: adept wants to update

Asked by Hans van den Bogert

I know this is not the fault of the kubuntu distribution, but could someone tell what I'm doing wrong:
linuxmce wasn't didn't quite run well, so I start-up aptitude set everything to uninstall, and then set everything to install through the following tasks
-kubuntu-desktop
-standard
-minimal

2 things surprised me,
i : in the above tasks there is no linux-image package, it took a live cd to kickstart my computer
ii : Adept manager thinks I'm in feisty, does anybody know the inner workings of adept what it looks for, so I can set it back to gutsy?

again; I know this is my own fault, but what is a minimal task, if it doesn't even include a linux-image package ?

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#1

another surprise, grub is not a dependency of kernel-image, yet it is clear that is needed by the postinst script belonging to kernel-image

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#2

figured it out, the apt preferences file was cluttered with linuxmce bs
So some packages couldn't be updated, probably one or 2 adept manager uses to orientate on which version is installed.

one word of advice, linuxmce is a true hell