I seem to have confused aptitude by using apt-get and was wondering how to unmarkauto *everything* and thereby reset it. ~# apt-get dist-upgrade 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. ~# aptitude dist-upgrade 1 packages upgraded, 172 newly installed, 5 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 200MB of archives. After unpacking 579MB will be used.