Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

Hi Bob,

On 6/8/07, Bob Proulx <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To prevent aptitude from removing some packages that were pulled in
through dependencies, you need to manually unmark them as auto
packages. This includes OpenOffice and Vim for desktop installs:

# aptitude unmarkauto openoffice.org vim

And 2.6 kernel images if you have installed them using a kernel
metapackage:

# aptitude unmarkauto $(dpkg-query -W 'kernel-image-2.6.*' | cut
# -f1)

Note: You can review which packages are marked as auto in aptitude by
running:

# aptitude search 'i~M <package name>'




Thanks, I was not aware of these options.

Manon.

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