Re: Need some help ???
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
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> I am in need of some help on not wanting some packages to be removed
> when I try using either apt-get install (package name), or using
> Synaptic...They both want to remove alot of packages that I do not want
> to do a total of 512...
>
> At one time I had this very same problem, I had mentioned it to one of
> my debian user friends, he had told me to edit out the packages in a
> certain script, which did eliminate this problem, but since that time I
> have forgotten where it was located, or what it was called...??? He
> also does not remember at this time...
>
> So might anyone know what I need to do to eliminate the wanting of
> synaptic, or apt-get to want to remove a bunch of files...???
>
> Any help on this would be very much appreciated...
>
> Thanks Larry
>
Sounds like you should have a look in /etc/apt/ and peak around in the
apt.conf.
Should have the entries for the attitude of apt. (check the apt manual
on debian.org http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto)
Good luck,
,Mark
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