On Feb 20 09:56, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020220 08:49]: > > When Im doing an 'apt-get install reportbug' it wants to install packages > > that is using 'Recommends' and 'Suggests' depending, but I want it to only > > Mine doesn't. People have complained such things about dselect, but > apt-get doesn't automatically install 'Recommends'ed or 'Suggests'ed > packages. > > > install packages that it absolutly needs (Such as with the 'Depends' > > depending). How can I do this with the apt-get command-line tool? > > > > Excerpt from 'apt-cache show reportbug': > > Depends: python > > Recommends: python-newt > > Suggests: postfix | mail-transport-agent, gnupg | pgp, python-ldap (>= > > 1.8-1) > > what do these show: > > dpkg -l reportbug python-newt python-ldap > apt-get -s install reportbug > > (I just want to see what packages you already have and which apt-get > will try to install. The -s flag to apt-get tells it to just tell you > what it would do without actually doing it.) >
Im having a stable system which I just uppgraded apt on to be able to install selected packages from testing as described on 'http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/1/mail'. Here is output from my apt when Im doing 'apt-get install reportbug/testing': Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 1.42 (Debian:testing) for reportbug The following extra packages will be installed: exim libdb3 pgp python-base reportbug The following NEW packages will be installed: exim libdb3 pgp python-base reportbug 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2071kB of archives. After unpacking 5619kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n 'dpkg -l reportbug python-newt python-ldap' gives: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ pn reportbug <none> (no description available) pn python-newt <none> (no description available) pn python-ldap <none> (no description available) -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ICQ: 7325429 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * web: http://john.pp.se
