Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/08 01:53, JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > >>>>> JoeHill wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > >>>>>> are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? > >>>>>> Not sure. > >>>>> ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see > >>>>> what the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned. > >>>> This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool > >>>> that God Intended Us To Use. > >>>> > >>>> Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are. > >>> node1:/home/joehill# apt-get upgrade > >>> Reading package lists... Done > >>> Building dependency tree > >>> Reading state information... Done > >>> The following packages have been kept back: > >>> hal > >>> The following packages will be upgraded: > >>> djvulibre-desktop libapr1 libaudio-dev libaudio2 libdjvulibre21 > >>> libenchant1c2a libhal-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil > >>> libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil > >>> libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-i18n1.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil > >>> libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil > >>> libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil > >>> libmono-system-data1.0-cil libmono-system-data2.0-cil > >>> libmono-system-web1.0-cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil > >>> libmono-system2.0-cil libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libpci3 > >>> libperl5.10 libpq5 mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime pciutils > >>> perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules screenlets tzdata > >>> 44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > >>> > >>> I'll accept that you're right about apt-get in general, but it's still not > >>> telling me why hal is being held back. > >>> > >>> I didn't see anything in the manpage to give me more verbose information. > >>> I'm not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it ;) > >> Just try to directly install hal. Then apt will tell you what new > >> or modified packages also need to be installed > > > > Okay, that did it. Now, the question is what to do about things that I think > > might be important > > > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > > required: libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a libcamel1.2-8 libgtkhtml3.8-15 > > cupsys-common libgail17 libc-client2002edebian libparted1.7-1 libneon25 > > libportaudio0 libicu36 industrial-cursor-theme libxt-java type-handling > > libasn1-6-heimdal esound libkrb5-17-heimdal refblas3 libpostproc0d > > libedata-cal1.2-5 xulrunner-gnome-support libgpod0 gcc-3.4-base libmdbtools > > libcdio6 libwnck18 guile-1.6-libs libgutenprintui2-1 python-qt3 > > libpoppler0c2 gs-common gdb libegroupwise1.2-10 python-sip4 ttf-opensymbol > > libecal1.2-6 libxul0d libdirectfb-0.9-25 gnome-keyring-manager > > libio-zlib-perl liferea-xulrunner libqthreads-12 libflac7 libeel2-2.14 > > iputils-arping libebook1.2-5 libedataserverui1.2-6 gtkhtml3.8 libiw28 > > libedataserver1.2-7 libmozjs0d discover1-data libxklavier10 libgda2-3 > > libavcodec0d libgucharmap4 libpq4 libmyspell3c2 pmount libsnmp9 > > libtotem-plparser1 libservlet2.3-java libxul-common libgda2-common mkisofs > > libnautilus-burn3 libxp6 libpoppler0c2-glib libroken16-heimdal > > libguile-ltdl-1 libgssapi4-heimdal libnss3-0d libavahi-core4 libpisync0 > > > > I'm pretty sure I need a lot of those things to build certain audio and > > video applications I use. I definitely need mkisofs. Will these be > > uninstallable afterwards? Or is it just these versions? > > It means *only* what it says: > The following packages were automatically installed > and are no longer required: > > Don't read or infer anything else! They are perfectly, and happily > installed, and apt-get will *not* uninstall them. > > If you want to "tell" apt-get to stop nagging/informing you about > their "automatic" status, then (counter-intuitively), just "apt-get > install" them. This won't actually *do* anything except tell apt > that you really do want these packages. > > (Copy-and-paste makes it dirt simple.) > > Of course, you could always pick and choose, "installing" the ones > you know you want, and purging the ones you don't (since you can > always reinstall them later).
I gotcha. New hal installed, on to the next New Thing. All the clarification most appreciated. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
