On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:18:50PM +1000, David & Leanne Wiener wrote: > Hi, > When I apt-get an application, the new packages download fine but then > apt-get unpacks another package that was left from a previous session. This > package is lilo, I use grub as my boot manager and don't want to change that. > > How do I stop apt-get from trying to install lilo each time I run it. At the > moment I just ctrl-c out of it each time > > Dave W > Hello Dave, It sounds like the lilo package got marked for re-installation. I the word might actually be 'reinst'. I had this same thing happen to me a couple of months ago. There are a few ways to fix it. You can do something like dpkg --set-selections and then type in the name of the pacakge, followed by a space then type 'install'. But I have only used that method once to put a package on hold some months ago and don't exactly remember. Another way I believe would be to use 'dselect'. Personally, I use 'aptitude', and I didn't know what to do about the package I was having this problem with until I fired up aptitude and saw it marked in there as 'ir', which means 'installed reinstall'. If I remember, I just hit the minus sign and then the plus sign on it in aptitude and that fixed it. Another way is to manually edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/status. HTH, Jimmy Richards --- Debian gives me a Woody --- o _ _ _ __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ The above ascii art was from another debian-user on the list. I like! > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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