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Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning



On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:56:32PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde 
> from my box totally.  Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" 
> thing anyway[1] :-)
> 
> I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following:
> 
> bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
> [snip]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data 
> The following packages have been kept back
>   gnu-smalltalk imagemagick libcurl2 liblcms1 liblcms1-dev libmng-dev 
> libmng1 libpng12-0 libpng12-0-dev libpng3 libwmf0.2-7
>   mpeglib tetrinetx 
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13  not 
> upgraded.
> 
> I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is 
> doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl 
> invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on 
> kdelibs-data.  Yes, I know "kdelibs & kdelibs4", but neither of them is 
> installed.

Use aptitude :)  You could just scroll down to 'kdelibs-data', hit
enter, scroll down to 'packages which depend on this' (or whatever the
exact wording is) and see a neat list of packages that are installed,
broken, queued for install, etc, etc.

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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