Hi, My usual method of 'cleaning' the system was to set all installed packages to auto-installed and then mark one by one the ones I need to keep. I even have a good list generated with:
aptitude -F '%?p' search '~i!~M' > bak/pkg.list
Now the problem I'm facing is that (probably due to some aptitude bug
than seems to have disappeared) most of my installed packages are set to
manually installed. How can I:
- set everything to auto-installed
- automatically mark as manually installed the ones in the list
?
I already tried (as root):
aptitude markauto ~i
This will try to remove everything and I have to abort
aptitude --schedule-only markauto ~i
Seems to be doing the first part, but I can't convince aptitude to
unmark my list (which I processed to not contain unneeded space and
newlines):
aptitude unmarkauto < pkg.list
has no effect
aptitude install < pkg.list
first tries to remove everything and when I say 'n' it starts crunching
on my processor.
Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Andrei
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