franklin:/var/log# aptitude purge initramfs-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: busybox klibc-utils libklibc The following packages will be REMOVED: initramfs-tools{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1454kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem: Depends: initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) but it is not installable or yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) but it is not installable or linux-initramfs-tool which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: libhtml-template-perl [2.8-1 (stable, stable, stable)] libparse-recdescent-perl [1.94.free-3 (stable, stable, stable)] yaird [0.0.12-18 (stable, stable, stable, now)] Score is -157 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]