Re: How to use aptitude
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:50:43PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:12:26PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote:
> >>
> >>Michael, thanks very much. I have only used apt-*
> >>previously, I will check out aptitude. --Don
> >
> >WARNING:
> >
> >aptitude keeps track of which packages you requested explicitly, and
> >which were only installed to satisfy a dependency. Unfortunately, ir t
> >only knows you explicitly requested a package if you used aptitude to
> >request it. This means you may find it offering to delete important
> >packages if that would solve a conflict. If it does, it's a sign you
> >need to exokicitly request something using aptitude!
> >
>
> So, if I have that right, I need to keep a close eye on
> what aptitude offers to uninstall, if I previously used
> 'apt-get install package' extensively?
Yes Yes Yes
> And, in that case,
> I can abort, and use aptitude to install/reinstall said
> important packages, and after that aptitude might better
> resolve the original conflict in dependencies?
Yes. It might. Unless there really is a difficult conflict
between the packages you want.
-- hendrik
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