Hello, > I cannot reproduce this behaviour.
Lucky you! I've since found out that I don't even have to quit and restart aptitude for this to trigger: mark package for purging, [g],[g] --> package is purged (as expected) [g] again --> package shows up marked for installation (instead of nothing to do message) set package to purge again, [g] -> skips right to the finished, press any key message,*now* it stays purged > Do you launch aptitude as user and then become root, or launch it as > root? I launch it as user and then become root as necessary. Standard sudo-setup as done by the installer when the option to prohibit root login is selected. > How much time passes between the sessions, [...] Doesn't matter, see above. I'm positive that no other tools are involved. > Do you have the options to automatically install Recommends or Suggests > enabled, in the system, root .aptitude/config or user .aptitude/config? Ah, yes ... there's this conf file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, meant to disable the automatic installation of Recommends and make the UI a little more dselect-like. I've been using it since dselect was deprecated, but it looks innocuous enough? Aptitude::Get-Root-Command "sudo:/usr/bin/sudo"; //Aptitude::Auto-Install "false"; Aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken "false"; Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false"; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; Aptitude::Keep-Recommends "true"; Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "true"; Aptitude::Purge-Unused "false"; Aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "filter(missing),status,priority,section"; Aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true"; //Aptitude::Theme "Dselect"; Thank you for looking at this, Christian
