the situation is getting better if I force not to install the recommended packages. Hence, imagemagick still wants to install a lot of packages I don't understand (still a lot of X and gtk stuff).
I don't think, this is just bug http://bugs.debian.org/474993 where skipping recommendations works. aptitude install --without-recommends imagemagick Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: fontconfig{a} gsfonts{a} libatk1.0-0{a} libcairo2{a} libcroco3{a} libcups2{a} libcupsys2{a} libdatrie0{a} libdjvulibre21{a} libgraphviz4{a} libgsf-1-114{a} libgsf-1-common{a} libgtk2.0-0{a} libgtk2.0-common{a} libilmbase6{a} libltdl3{a} libmagick10{a} libopenexr6{a} libpango1.0-0{a} libpango1.0-common{a} libpixman-1-0{a} librsvg2-2{a} libthai-data{a} libthai0{a} libwmf0.2-7{a} libxcb-render-util0{a} libxcb-render0{a} libxcb1{a} libxcomposite1{a} libxcursor1{a} libxdamage1{a} libxfixes3{a} libxft2{a} libxi6{a} libxinerama1{a} libxrandr2{a} libxrender1{a} The following packages will be upgraded: imagemagick The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: djvulibre-desktop ghostscript hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-data libgtk2.0-bin x-ttcidfont-conf 1 packages upgraded, 37 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/20.8MB of archives. After unpacking 51.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Hope this might help somehow Ciao /dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]