Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

[Carsten Prieß <carstenpriess@gmx.de>]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:33:39 +0100
Vanuxem Grégory <g.vanuxem@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Le samedi 05 mars 2005 à 16:43 -0500, Ed Tomlinson a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused
> > packages...  Well it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is
> > must be wrong...  Me thinks I'll revert to  apt-get - aptitude seems
> > very broken.  
> > 
> > Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64?
> > Ed
> > 
> > grover:/usr/bin# aptitude 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:
> >   xfs xfwp xnest xvfb
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   cpp-3.3 g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gij-3.3 ifupdown imagemagick
> >   libgcj-common libgcj4 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libmagick++6
> >   libmagick6 libobjc1 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev perlmagick tora
> > 18 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not
> > upgraded. Need to get 16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 10.6MB
> > will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
> > Abort.
> > grover:/usr/bin# ps -ef | grep xfs
> > root      4793     1  0 15:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs
> > -daemon root      7452  7334  0 16:37 pts/1    00:00:00 grep xfs
> > 
> > 
> In aptitude, 
> :	type 'g' (processing)
> in unused => open, select xfs and all package that you want keep (no
> package depend on it)
> and type 'm'
> 
> man aptitude => info aptitdse (section unused package)
Hoewever he uses aptitude as commandline (didn't know that's possible)
without GUI. So he can't select this.

Carsten