Miles Bader (miles@ccs.mt.nec.co.jp) wrote: > peter karlsson <pk@mds.mdh.se> writes: > > > Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what > > > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of > > > upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or > > > conflicts), like dselect does? > > I don't think so. > I was afraid that was the answer...unfortunately console-apt simply > isn't a sufficient replacement for dselect without this feature (in some > form or another; maybe it could be less whizzy than dselect's, but it's > gotta be there). This works: jekyll# apt-get -s install ae Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: slang1 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Inst ae [] Inst slang1 Conf slang1 Conf ae Unfortunately, that doesn't show you what version it wants to use; for that, I use this: jekyll# apt-get --print-uris install ae Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: slang1 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Need to get 200kB of archives. After unpacking 108kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/slang1_1.3.8-2.1.deb' slang1_1.3.8-2.1_i386.deb 164854 2e1bc6e0c30ed211024cd197f9c8b242 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/ae_962-25.1.deb' ae_962-25.1_i386.deb 35360 59df7b78823f8304e7da3e3915ef6f7b (Ugly, but functional.) -- Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ wooledge@kellnet.com | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
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