~# apt-get update && apt-get dselect-upgrade Get: 1 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Get: 2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/non-free Packages Fetched 2B in 2s (1B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp* python-gnome2 python2.3-cjkcodecs The following NEW packages will be installed abiword-common abiword-gnome abiword-help aspell aspell-en at-spi autoconf automake1.9 autotools-dev avahi-daemon blt dasher-data debconf-utils deborphan dhelp dia-common dia-gnome dia-libs dialog doc-base doc-central dwww fam fast-user-switch-applet festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc8k gda2-postgres gdk-imlib11 gdk-imlib11-dev gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-audio gnome-bin gnome-common gnome-core gnome-cups-manager gnome-desktop-environment gnome-games-extra-data gnome-libs-data gnome-mag gnome-office gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras gnome-user-guide gnumeric gnumeric-common gnumeric-doc gnumeric-plugins-extra gs-common gs-esp gsfonts-x11 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gtk2-engines-spherecrystal html2ps imagemagick imlib-base indent industrial-cursor-theme info2www inkscape intltool libart-dev libart2 libatspi1.0-0 libaudiofile-dev libavahi-core4 libbrlapi1 libcupsimage2 libdaemon0 libesd0-dev libestools1.2 libfile-ncopy-perl libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgnome-dev libgnome-mag2 libgnome-speech3 libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnome32 libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgoffice-1-2 libgoffice-1-common libgpod-common libgpod0 libgsf-gnome-1-114 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtk1.2-dev libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libice-dev libid3tag0 libloudmouth1-0 libmagick++9c2a libmime-types-perl libmpeg2-4 libnss-mdns liborbit-dev liborbit0 libpaper-utils libplot2c2 libpopt-dev libpstoedit0c2a libsemanage1 libsidplay1 libsm-dev libtool libungif4g libwmf-bin libwrap0-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev libxevie1 libxext-dev libxi-dev libxml-parser-perl orbit perl-doc perl-tk perlmagick pkg-config planner psfontmgr pstoedit psutils pxlib1 python-cjkcodecs python-imaging python-imaging-tk python-selinux python-semanage python-tk skencil tk8.4 x-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-xext-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 152 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/99.3MB of archives. After unpacking 307MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 89152 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp ... Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp ... Running postrm hook /sbin/update-grub . Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686-smp Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 128 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)