Re: aptitude loosing its mind?
On Saturday 05 March 2005 05:06 pm, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:31, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > Ed,
> >
> > There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on!
> >
> > The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed
> > automatically to satisfy a dependency of some other program, which
> > subsequently has been removed. (IIRC there are two different font servers
> > that can be used with XFree86, but I can't remember the name of the other
> > one.)
> >
> > In any case, if you wish to keep it on your system, just mark it as
> > manually installed 'm' in aptitude.
>
> Is there any way to do this from the command line?
Not that I'm aware of. Of course, aptitude is an ncurses application, not an
X application. I generally run it from a virtual console.
> More to the point. Aptitude seems a little (just a little) brain dead. It
> might be a REAL good idea to see if anything from the package is running
> before deciding it should be removed...
Generally the package scripts take care of that, but it couldn't hurt to run
'ps' and check.
> Thanks
> Ed
>
> > > 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
> >
> > --
> > Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964
> > ----
> > "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC
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