Aight, I was attempting to install kde2.1 and it failed due to the fact i didnt have libstdc++2.8 installed already. After it complained obviously I attempted to install the libstdc++2.8 with apt-get and got this response.
fenris:~/temp # apt-get install libstdc++2.8 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kdebase The following NEW packages will be installed: libstdc++2.8 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/96.1kB of archives. After unpacking 9654kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 36258 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdebase ... cp: /etc/X11/window-managers: omitting directory dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kdebase E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Exit 100 I've tried using to get rid of it but obviously another error occured fenris:~/temp # dpkg -P --force-remove-reinstreq kdebase (Reading database ... 36258 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdebase ... cp: /etc/X11/window-managers: omitting directory dpkg: error processing kdebase (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kdebase Exit 1 If anyone has any ideas or if you need some more info from me please ask... thanks all.