Hi everyone, This is something I've never understood, and it's really bugging me right now. Why is it that when I remove software, apt sometimes forces me to install other software? Example:
green:~# dpkg -l "libgtkhtml*"
ii libgtkhtml13 0.10.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - runtime fil
ii libgtkhtml14 0.11.1-4 HTML rendering/editing library - runtime fil
ii libgtkhtml20 1.0.2-1 HTML rendering/editing library - runtime fil
green:~# dpkg -l libgal*
ii libgal19 0.19-1 G App Libs (run time library)
ii libgal8 0.9.1-1 G App Libs (run time library)
ii libgal9 0.10-1 G App Libs (run time library)
Ok, I've got several versions of both of these packages installed,
right? I'm trying to chase down a rendering problem with gnucash, and
I've been told that multiple versions of these might be causing a
problem. I want to remove the old ones.
green:~# apt-get remove libgal{8,9} libgtkhtml{13,14}
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libgal7 is not installed, so not removed
The following extra packages will be installed: <-----
bonobo gnome-libs-data gnumeric gtkhtml libbonobo2 libole2-0 <-----
libungif4g
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgal8 libgal9 libgtkhtml13 libgtkhtml14
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 303 not
upgraded.
Need to get 4412kB of archives. After unpacking 11.3kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
WTF? Why does in want to INSTALL new packages, just because I'm
removing old ones? I can understand wanting to remove extra packages
(if I'm removing something one of them depends on), but installing?
Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed anymore (too high traffic).
TIA,
-ben
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