On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 12:24 +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > On 2013-10-13 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > > I think that aptitude works quite well for the easiest cases. And it is > > the only instrument I know which allow to see dependency chains. It was > > dselect some time ago which could do it too as I know, but now it seems > > to be dead. BTW, it provides with good capabilities for searching > > through packages. > > Remember that aptitude has evolved quite a bit. The scenarios that you > and some others describe are not necessarily pertinent anymore. When you > use phrases like "fond memories", please state how old these memories are > ;). Any package manager, needless to say, is wholly dependent on the > metadata in the packages, so if these are not sensible, they may come up > with rash solutions. The great thing about aptitude (to me) is that it is > so easy to leaf through "broken" packages, using the 'b' key in the > curses interface, and then examine what the matter is with each package. > Most often, I find that I can solve dependency problems by simply not > upgrading one or more packages. You do that easily by typing 'v' on a > broken package and then typing '+' on the already installed version. If > using the resolver instead, the solution presented is often to remove the > package or some other package. For instance, at the moment the package > xul-ext-greasemonkey is marked as upgradable on my system, but the > package's metadata has Iceweasel in a non-installable version as a > dependency. Aptitude wants to remove xul-ext-greasemonkey and apt-get > wants to remove Iceweasel. None of these solutions may be what you want, > so simply keeping xul-ext-greasemonkey in the already installed version > is an alternative that the command line solutions in the two package > managers do not present the user. > > Morten
apt-mark hold <package> or echo <package> hold | dpkg --set-selections or Synaptic's lock option will lock the packages for apt-get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1381664559.765.136.camel@archlinux
