Re: Aptitude suddenly tries to remove almost everything!
On 17 Feb 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:39:45AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >When I ran aptitude today it suddenly wanted to remove dozens of vital
> >applications. I therefore purged aptitude and reinstalled it, following
> >which it behaved rationally again. I've had this once or twice before.
> >It makes me think that apt-get is probably safer.
>
> If aptitude is doing this it tends to be due to an inconsistent package
> cache. Rather than purging aptitude, try moving its cache file somewhere
> else and rerunning it. Rename or move the file
> /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates and rerun aptitude.
>
> I ran into this problem once, and removing that file fixed it. Since
> then I use wajig and aptitude frequently and interchangably, and haven't
> had any issues.
>
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> Steve Block
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Thanks for this suggestion; I'll keep it in mind for if/when it happens
again. I've also been trying out wajig recently and it looks pretty good
so I may well do the same as you.
Anthony
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