Re: Getting apt-get to explain things

To: Debian user queries <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Getting apt-get to explain things
From: Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>
Date: 12 Nov 1999 02:12:55 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 87aeokqzqg.fsf@ashwork.marquardt-home.de>
In-reply-to: peter karlsson's message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:16:34 +0100 (CET)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.20.9911120013280.15652-100000@dat95pkn.campus.mdh.se>

* peter karlsson <pk@mds.mdh.se> writes:

> How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package?

man 5 apt.conf

| Debug Options
| 	 Most of the options in the debug section are not interest
| 	 ing  to the normal user, however Debug::pkgProblemResolver
| 	 shows interesting output about the decisions  dist-upgrade
| 	 makes.  Debug::NoLocking  disables file locking so apt can


-- 
| Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! 
| by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM 
| I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into
| my forehead! I shit you not!        [Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]

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