Re: package removal
Hi,
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Sebastiaan wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote:
> > > For something to be removed, you have to answer "y" to the question
> > > of whether you want them to be. Presumably, you did.
> > >
> > true, and I was intending to reinstall it after the upgrade was complete.
> >
> > Problem is: apt doesn't allow you to choose which packages are not to
> > removed: it's either all or nothing. Choosing "n" will cause apt to abort
> > the upgrade, so that wasn't really an option.
>
> When I see something like that I break out of apt and then will do
> something like "hold" the package. But truly if it was a conflict
> then that won't work.
>
> echo xv hold | dpkg --set-selections
>
that was the option I was looking for!
> If you really need xv specifically then you can always get the latest
> rpm of it from the xv site and alien translate it and install it. I
> think I needed the alien from sid to do a good job with this
> translation but recent alien versions worked well.
>
> > > > Now I can't find this package in the Debian tree anymore, neither did
>
> Without trying to start a debate I suggest that instead of xv you
> might try these image viewers. They are free software and avoid the
> entanglements of xv's copyright.
>
> xview -- in the xloadimage package
> feh -- what can I say but that I like it
>
> If you are using xv to grab images then:
>
> import -- in the imagemagick package
>
> And searching with apt will of course turn up more.
>
> apt-cache search image viewer
>
> Bob
>
thanks for the suggestions! I will take a look at those.
Greetz,
Sebas
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