Re: APT strangeness
Peter,
I had this same thing happen to me, so I dug into it a bit and this
is what I found. Lynx-ssl depends on the slang1 library being below
versin 1.3.1 I believe, and since dist-upgrade trys to intelligently
handle dependancies, etc, since you installed a version of slang1 that
was higher than the version lynx-ssl needed to run, it marked the package
for un-installation. I believe if you check the other packages that were
removed they would have a similar dependancy on slang1 or some other
program that was upgraded that the packages listed for removal
depended on being a lower version number.
In my case, since I use lynx-ssl quite a bit I had to downgrade slang1
to the previous version.
Regards,
Todd
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
> How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to
> remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want
> to remove?
>
>
> # apt-get -s dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> ae gimp lynx-ssl modconf newt0.25 newt0.30 whiptail
>
> [...]
>
> I have not asked for any of the programs listed to be removed.
>
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