On Feb 20 19:32, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:31:42PM +0000, John Ericson wrote: > > 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 > > 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) > > You can theoretically use "echo ..." and "apt-get --set-selections" >
You mean dpkg --set-selections right? I tried to set exim libdb3 and pgp to hold. Only exim worked because the two other doesnt exist in stable. On those I got a "libdb3 doesn't exist." message. When Im doing an "apt-get install reportbug/testing" I get this: 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 The following held packages will be changed: exim 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. It just overrides my hold settings =( > But set-selection action is easier with using "dselect" > > # dselect update > # dselect select > > then > > # apt-get dselect-upgrade > or > # dselect install > I tried with aptitude which is a similar program but it belive that these programs doesnt have support for running with such a multi-distro setup (stable and testing) that Im using. They all only lists stable packages. Im looking for something such as a apt option which I can give with -o=... or insert in my /etc/apt/apt.conf. Else Ill have to install packages manualy with dpkg =( -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ICQ: 7325429 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * web: http://john.pp.se
