Re: Depends overkill, how do you weed out the packages
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:57:56 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> [...] have you looked at the -R option to aptitude? [...]
> A
No, classic clueless newb syndrome from me. It did not occur to me based
on the returned output I got before that aptitude was mingling recommended
packages with required packages. I'm newly switched to aptitude vs. apt-get
so I'll need to re-discover those kinds of nuances.
This new output gives me something I can feel a little better about and
move forward, Thank you!
aptitude -R install virtualbox-3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ca-certificates{a}
libasound2{a}
libaudio2{a}
libcurl3{a}
libdb4.5{a}
libidn11{a}
libjpeg62{a}
liblcms1{a}
libldap-2.4-2{a}
libmng1{a}
libqt4-network{a}
libqtcore4{a}
libqtgui4{a}
libsdl1.2debian{a}
libsdl1.2debian-alsa{a}
libsqlite3-0{a}
libssh2-1{a}
libsvga1{a}
libtiff4{a}
libx86-1{a}
libxcursor1{a}
libxfixes3{a}
libxi6{a}
libxmu6{a}
libxslt1.1{a}
libxt6{a}
mime-support{a}
openssl{a}
psmisc{a}
python2.5{a}
python2.5-minimal{a}
svgalibg1{a}
virtualbox-3.0
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
binutils
epdfview
evince
evince-gtk
gcc
gv
kghostview
kpdf
libgl1-mesa-glx
libgl1-mesa-swx11
libhal1
libpulse0
libsdl-ttf2.0-0
linux-headers-2.6-amd64
linux-headers-2.6-openvz-amd64
linux-headers-2.6-vserver-amd64
linux-headers-2.6-xen-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64
make
okular
python-central
qt4-qtconfig
viewpdf.app
xpdf-reader
xpdf-utils
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