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What am I doing wrong?

Asked by Riverrun

Terminal tells me that some packages are no longer required (see below) and I would like to remove them.
When asked to continue I:
a) pressed the enter key, result: abort
b) pressed y, result: abort
c) pressed Y, result: abort
d) pressed y + enter and Y + enter with the same result.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

xxx@yyy:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove libsm-dev libice-dev libpth20 x11proto-xext-dev libatk1.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev gfxboot x11proto-xinerama-dev
  x11proto-render-dev libxrender-dev libxdmcp-dev libfontconfig1-dev
  xtrans-dev x11proto-core-dev gettext x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-input-dev
  libfreetype6-dev libxau-dev libkmime2 libexpat1-dev libxft-dev libx11-dev
  python-xlib
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gettext gfxboot libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev
  libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libgpgme11 libice-dev libkleopatra1
  libkmime2 libkpimidentities1 libpango1.0-dev libpth20 libsm-dev libx11-dev
  libxau-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev
  libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
  libxrender-dev python-xlib x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev
  x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev
  x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev
  x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 41 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 45.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Abort.

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#1

is this a terminal emulator, like konsole or something?

this a long shot, but could you try it in a "real" terminal (cntrl-alt-F1) maybe your keymap is messed up, and dpkg isn't recognizing the Y and so on.

or try ssh-ing from another computer, just to be sure it's not your keyboard which is faulty
Can't think of something else which could be wrong in such a trivial case

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Riverrun (buttimersean) said : 		#2

Hi Dlgandalf, thanks for the reply. Before the email arrived in my mail box, I logged out/ logged in and tried again and it worked. Poblem solved!