[wplug] My Debian died

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I have two questions here for Debian users.  I'm on Testing. First, 
assuming I use apt-get exclusively for software installation, where can I 
see a list of the last 'n' packages installed?

Second, did something crazy just happen recently with the Debian packages? 
Out of the blue, my xmms just stopped working, telling me that it can't 
find libmikmod.so.2 --I've never had this problem before, but I go to 
apt-get install libmikmod2 and apt cheerfully asks me if I wnt to download 
404 MB of archives and update virtually every package on my system.

I have just never learned much about apt, but I was wondering if I missed 
a memo.

This may well be the end of my stay with Debian (or at the very least, 
Debian Testing) considering how many unsolved problems I am facing that 
don't seem to have answers short of myself personally delving into the 
source code (something I'm not prepared to do, considering how hard I am 
having to work just to keep even with people who persistently mock me for 
not using Windows).

Anyway, so I was wondering (with regard to the first question) what I 
might have recently installed that broke xmms, and (with regard to the 
second), whether I should ditch this distro.

-Brandon