Ron Johnson wrote: > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. > > ~# aptitude install base-config > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information... Done > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtkspell0 logjam pan > [snip] > The following packages will be upgraded: > base-config > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 43 not upgraded. > Need to get 126kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] n > Abort. > > Why does aptitude want to remove those packages? For example, > pan (which I installed from sid) is installed correctly. > > # dpkg -l |grep ' pan ' > ii pan 0.14.0-3 A Newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like These packages were pulled in by dependencies of other packages, and so aptitude has them marked as auto-installed, and so will try to auto-remove them. Use "aptitude unmarkauto pan gaim <etc>" (or the GUI) to let it know you mean to keep the packages. (Related tip -- aptitude has a nice hint on its man page -- use aptitude markauto '~slibs' and it will mark every package in the libs section as autoinstalled.) -- see shy jo
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