Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 Severity: normal I try this:
tucano:/tmp# aptitude install octave3.1-info Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: glpk-doc{u} glpk-utils{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1892kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Okay, this is normal: i removed the old empty glpk package, so I have to tell aptitude that I really want these. So I do: tucano:/tmp# aptitude unmarkauto glpk-doc glpk-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: glpk-doc{u} glpk-utils{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1892kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Something is going wrong. I cannot seem to be able to tell aptitude that I really want those packages. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Nov 20 2008 05:11:32 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff6ffff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007f1e67a36000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f1e677eb000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1e675e6000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f1e67313000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f1e6709a000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f1e66d30000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1e66b19000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1e668fd000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1e665f1000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1e6636e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1e66157000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1e65e04000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f1e65c01000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1e659fd000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1e67cf7000) Terminal: screen.linux $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, lc_ctype=it...@euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org