Re: virtual package? aptitude says "not a real package".
From: Kumar Appaiah (akumar_at_iitm.ac.in)
Date: 09/29/05
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:36:55 +0530 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:54:26AM -0700, furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> aptitude sometimes says some package is "not a real package".
> For instance:
>
> $ aptitude show emacs-dl-wnn
> Package: emacs-dl-wnn
> State: not a real package
>
> When I try to install such a package using "aptitude install",
> nothing is installed. Could someone tell me what this is?
On my system, apt-cache show emacs-dl-wn gives me black, install says
that package is unavailable.
I think virtual packages are those which are actually generic software
which have many options fitting the bill. For example, exim4, postfix,
esmtp-run, sendmail etc. all `provide' the `mail-transport-agent'
virtual package.
See:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-virtual
Kumar
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