Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.
On 8/1/05, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote:
> > Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out
> > aptitude. But I'm surprised by this:
> >
> > $ aptitude -s upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree
> > Reading extended state information
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done
> > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> >
> > followed by a long list of packages, some of which I'm running right now.
> > How does aptitude determine this list, and what's the best way to correct
> > it?
> >
> There've been a few posts on this over the last few days; have a look at
> the d-u list archive.
>
> Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude
> If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you
> can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed.
A better option is '+' - 'h' will disable updates.
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