Re: aptitude loosing its mind?
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?
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...
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
>
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