Hello all.
I want to Reinstall a package with the name "libXv.so.1" but when I want to remove or Reinstall it :

The following packages will be REMOVED:
brasero caja gnome-alsamixer gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-media
gnome-sushi gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x gvfs gvfs-backends
gvfs-daemons libbonoboui2-0 libcheese-gtk21 libcheese3 libfarstream-0.1-0
libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 libpurple-bin libpurple0 libxv1 libxvmc1
mate-applets mate-desktop-environment mate-desktop-environment-core
mate-desktop-environment-extras mate-media mate-media-gstreamer nautilus
nautilus-sendto pidgin pidgin-encryption pidgin-openpgp pidgin-otr
pidgin-plugin-pack pidgin-skype python-gnome2 system-config-printer
task-desktop telepathy-haze totem totem-plugins x11-utils xorg
xserver-xephyr xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome

why? It want to remove most of my Linux component

I use Debian 7 X64.


Thank you.

First, it is not removing most of your 'Linux component'...just a few packages, related to Gnome and X. Second, as with many of your previous threads, you omit relevant details, such as WHY you're doing this, and what you typed in.

And as before, doing a brief Google search for "how to reinstall a package on debian" leads you to the man page for apt-get. If you tried READING the man page, you'd find the "--reinstall" option:
Using the "--reinstall" option with the apt-get command will let you re-install the relevant package. If you need to be spoon-fed an answer:

Hey, I want to install wireshark but "apt-get install wireshark" want to remove many packages and I guess it is all of my system. Please see the attachment. It is Normal?

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I have experienced this on multiple occasions in fact I've had it remove my whole DE.
It tells me packages were installed automatically & no longer necessary & to use autoremove.
What I've done to prevent it from happening is opening aptitude in terminal & marking packages manually installed then it only removes conflicting packages. If a package is obsolete you can see it in synaptic

Try to not double post threads in the future
Also post output of

I use regular repository and I don't want to remove my Debian

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

It's trying to upgrade to sid so it will try to remove files. You may end up with an unstable system with the sid repo enabled
Comment out the sid repo.

Thank you