Re: aptitude farted?

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 06:50:31PM -0400, Silvan wrote:
> aptitude is trying to remove a bunch of stuff I most assuredly DO
> need.  I'm hacking on a KDE app.  I don't want to remove these.  WTF??
[..]
> aptitude install checkinstall
[..]
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>   kapptemplate kbabel kbugbuster kcachegrind kdesdk-kfile-plugins
>   kdesdk-misc kdesdk-scripts kompare kuiviewer poxml umbrello valgrind
>   valgrind-calltree
[..]
> Just for fun, I tried kdevelop3, and got the same list of things
> aptitude is convinced I no longer need.  No, I'm only installing a
> development IDE for KDE stuff.  I don't need any of the kde devel
> stuff.  What, do you think I'm going to use the IDE to develop KDE
> stuff?  No.  I'm going to use it to write bash scripts.

The above packages are probably marked as automatically installed for
some reason.  Did you bulk tag a pile of packages as automatically
installed when you started using aptitude?

You could run:
aptitude install checkinstall kapptemplate kbabel kbugbuster kcachegrind
 kdesdk-kfile-plugins kdesdk-misc kdesdk-scripts kompare kuiviewer poxml
 umbrello valgrind valgrind-calltree

Or you could manually tag those packages as /not/ being automatically
installed in the interface (with "m" I believe)

You probably also need to check that other packages that you want aren't
set as having been automatically installed too.

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