Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete



On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:46:22 +0530
arijit <arijit.2612@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

In synaptic window, i've one status named Installed (local or
obsolete). There are few packages under this status. Why these are
so? I am confused with "obsolete" status.

Those are packages which you have built yourself (local) or which are
no longer in the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, or which
are in a repository which you have removed from that list (obsolete in
both cases).

How can I remove that status message?

Only by restoring the lines which you removed
from /etc/apt/sources.list, if that was the case.

What are the packages? Do you still need them? Are any of them listed
in the output of the 'deborphan' command?

--

Liam


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