Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:39:04 -0900
Ken Irving <fnkci@xxxxxxx> wrote:

The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
...

I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably
everything will be fine until the next time I decide to try
aptitude. Is there a compelling reason to bother?

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci@xxxxxxx



Is the problem, perhaps, because of the differences between apt and
aptitude? I ran into the same problem when I first started using
aptitude.

What I did was to go into the interactive aptitude, deselected those
packages I didn't want removed and installed the package I wanted.
When aptitude was finished installing the package, it had created
its own database and all went well after that point.

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