mustard lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
> packages that I have accidently marked when uses the ncurses
> interface.
You can use '-' (or '_') as Raquel suggested. Since this method
requires that you look for the dependencies tha
Justin Guerin wrote:
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:51, mustard lee wrote:
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[snip]
One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
packages t
Grant Thomas wrote:
> > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am
a long
> > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
> > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I
wanted and,
> > so far, exactly what apt-get would have done.
Magnus Therning wrote:
[ ... ]
# aptitude unmarkauto --schedule-only '~i'
Install aptitude-doc and take a look at
file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03.html
[ ... ]
Thanks, Magnus. Worked a treat.
Chris.
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[ ... ]
# aptitude unmarkauto --schedule-only '~i'
Install aptitude-doc and take a look at
file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03.html
[ ... ]
Thanks, Magnus. Worked a treat.
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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:51, mustard lee wrote:
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
> >On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
> >>Florian Kulzer wrote:
[snip]
>
> One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
> packages that I have accidently marked when uses th
On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:51:10 +1000
mustard lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to
> 'unmark' packages that I have accidently marked when uses the
> ncurses interface. I have no trouble marking things and
> installing them, although,
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:04:40AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
>Clive Menzies wrote:
>
>>[ ... ]
>>
>>The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will
>>sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuase
>>it wasn't used to install
>>[ ... ]
>>
>This is because a
Clive Menzies wrote:
[ ... ]
The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will
sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuase
it wasn't used to install
[ ... ]
This is because aptitude labels packages as either automatically
installed or manually
On 18 May 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
> >Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> >> You cannot break anything
> >>by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
> >>neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptit
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
>Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
>> You cannot break anything
>>by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
>>neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
>>a tool which integrates the functionality
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which i
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> > You cannot break anything
> >by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
> >neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
> >a tool which integrates the function
On Wed, 17 May 2006 14:59:26 +0200
"H. Wilmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> > You cannot break anything
> > by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
> > neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of
> > aptitude as a tool which int
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which integrates the functionality of apt-get, apt-cache, etc.
into one utility with an optional ncur
Grant Thomas wrote:
Question for you (anyone) then:
If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a
dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would
removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current
dependency for gnome and leave it?
It would see
Grant Thomas wrote:
>Question for you (anyone) then:
>If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a
>dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would
>removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current
>dependency for gnome and leave it?
Aptitude doe
Grant Thomas schreef:
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:31:40PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds
> > wrote:
> > > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
> > > aptitude as
> > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
> > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
> > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
> > so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just an
> >
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
> > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about
> > mixing the two.
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
> aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about
> mixing the two.
You might try searching the archives for articles confirming
Ron Johnson:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>
> > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
> > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
> > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
>
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Rick Reynolds:
[snip]
> For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
> time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
> several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
Rick Reynolds:
>
> I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
> aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about
> mixing the two.
Mixing the two is generally a bad idea since aptitude tracks which
packages you really wanted to install and which ones ju
On (16/05/06 11:53), Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
> aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about
> mixing the two.
>
> I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two
> years -- all the
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