Just came across this site, explaining why you might consider using
debfoster, deborphan and debsecan if not using aptitude:
"Housekeeping utilities for Debian packages"
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/17/2016215
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There is obviously something wrong because I use many of these
packages. It wants to remove whole gnome. If I use apt-get, 0 packages
are to be removed.
Is this some bug in aptitude?
I think you can simply, under the Actions menu, choose "Cancel Pending
Actions", which should set things str
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 03:32:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Marko Randjelovic
wrote:
> All right, I did "aptitude keep-all" and now it looks like everything is
> OK. But note that I have also automatic daily "apt-get update". I should
> have tried first "aptitude dist-upgrade" before keep-all.
Act
On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
> instead of aptitude.
>
> RLH
Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.htm
All right, I did "aptitude keep-all" and now it looks like everything is
OK. But note that I have also automatic daily "apt-get update". I should
have tried first "aptitude dist-upgrade" before keep-all.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependenc
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 21:48:47 +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >Most likely it is not a bug. It seems that some packages have been
> >marked as "automatically installed" and no other package on your system
> >depends on them anymore. In that case aptitude will remove the
Russell L. Harris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> There was a discussing regarding this matter on this list a week or so
> ago; check the archives.
>
> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
> instead of aptitude.
>
I don't think that is too good. I upgrad
Russell L. Harris wrote:
There was a discussing regarding this matter on this list a week or so
ago; check the archives.
I didn't find that discussion. Can you give me some words from Subject
or body so i can find it? Most similar I found is
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/08/msg
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Most likely it is not a bug. It seems that some packages have been
marked as "automatically installed" and no other package on your system
depends on them anymore. In that case aptitude will remove these
"unused" packages unless you change that configuration option.
This
* Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061117 11:26]:
> When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool
> gconf-editor gdm gedit gedit-comm
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 17:27:27 +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool
> gconf-editor gdm gedit g
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 05:27:27PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool
> gconf-editor gdm gedit
When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed:
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool
gconf-editor gdm gedit gedit-common gnome-backgrounds gnome-cards-data
gnome-core gnome-games gno
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