On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 05:34:51PM +0300, Markus Järvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > $ aptitude install already-installed-package > > I was trying to install a package which I didn't know was already > installed. The output indicated that basically nothing happened, so I > thought there must be an error somewhere. It took me some time to find out > that it was already installed. I think it would be more intuitive if the > output always said something about the packages given on the command line.
Well, aptitude used to do this all the time, but now it only does this if it can't find a package name or if you pass "-v" to turn on verbose mode. See bug #258913. Daniel
