Re: aptitude farted?
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 09:41 pm, dircha wrote:
> Execute the following to list packages considered to to automatically
> installed:
> $ aptitude search ~M
Ah. Good.
> This can happen in cases where you've installed several applications as
> part of a "meta" package - a package which exists just to make
> dependencies on a group of apps - and then uninstalled the top level
> meta package. This is the expected behavior.
>
> I don't use KDE, but I know there are a number of Debian KDE packages of
> this sort.
I did install the "kde" metapackage, which pulled in everything, including
three kitchen sinks. I haven't uninstalled it though.
ii kde 3.1.2 The K Desktop Environment
3.1.2???
That's interesting:
ii kde 3.1.2 The K Desktop Environment
...
ii kdeaddons 3.2.2-1 add-on plugins and applets provided with KDE
Maybe the metapackage was just broken anyway. I didn't notice the version
difference previously.
I'll have to investigate.
> Correct this manually by executing:
> # aptitude unmarkauto [package]
Perfect. Thanks.
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