Re: autoinstalled packages
On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>>>>> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > "aptitude unmarkauto isc-dhcp-client" does the trick.
>
> I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same
> (provided that there's no newer version of the package in the
> repositories.)
With a new enough apt, probably. But not in Squeeze, I think. See
http://bugs.debian.org/612557.
> Also there's the APT::Get::AutomaticRemove option, which, if set
> to false, I expect to prevent APT from removing the
> automatically installed packages.
Well, apt-get and aptitude have different configuration keys and default
values for them (apt-get defaults to not autoremove unused packages).
That's a bit unfortunate, but since aptitude had always defaulted to
autoremove unused packages and apt versions before 0.7 could not even
mark packages as automatically installed, this is understandable.
> However, what I'm interested in right now, is how do I access
> the list of autoinstalled packages with plain APT or dpkg(1)?
With apt, use "apt-mark showauto". With dpkg it's not possible since
dpkg does not know about autoinstalled packages.
Sven
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