Re: How to tell WHY apt wants to install so many packages
Dave Ewart <davee@sungate.co.uk> wrote on 18/01/2005
06:12:44 PM:
> On Tuesday, 18.01.2005 at 17:39 +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:31 -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > > Is there any package, or command, that will go through the
"depends'
> > > for a packages and tell me exactly why apt-get wants to
install over
> > > 30MB of packages when all I am trying to do is remove ONE
package.
> >
> > I have not gone through your list and tried to figure it out.
This is
> > just the first thought that crossed my mind:
> >
> > apt will by default try to update packages where a newer version
is
> > available. So even if all you type ist "apt-get install
something", it
> > will not only get the the package something, but also fetch newer
> > versions of already-installed packages as if you typed "apt-get
> > upgrade".
> >
> > I don't know if this can be turned off somewhere. My personal
> > workaround is not to update the package lists until I want to
upgrade.
> > So in the meantime apt-get won't even know that there is a newer
> > version and hence won't upgrade.
>
> But 'apt-get upgrade' isn't supposed to add or remove any packages,
> simply replace newer versions of older versions of already-installed
> packages.
>
> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will play with dependencies.
>
> I also don't understand why an 'apt-get install' or 'apt-get remove'
> seems to pick up the behaviour of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in this
> context.
Maybe some packages have not be installed correctly
in the past. Try apt-get -f install to see, if any packages are missing.
After that try apt-get remove yourunwantedpackage and only this one should
be removed...
hth,
Andy
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