Re: APT(ITUDE) problems (aka cat herding)
Scott Muir wrote:
this is one example of the problem:
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
debconf-utils
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
centericq-common libcurl3 libgpgme11
Installing various packages kicks out OTHER various packages. in this case,
the debconf-utils pkg
its like there is a battle royale going on with dependencies, and i've been
bitten once bad in the past when i tried installing samba on an ubuntu
machine which it did but not before uninstalling postfix (the MTA) (BAAAD)
Try:
aptitude unmarkauto debconf-utils
I'm guessing you initially installed debconf-utils with apt-get, which doesn't set aptitude's special auto/manual flag. Aptitude then thinks that debconf-utils was automatically installed (as a dependency of another package), and since no packages currently depend on it, it removes it. It's a handy feature... but somewhat misguided in this case.
this is what j2sdk does sometime after installing nagios:
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
libdbd-pg-perl libdbi-perl libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sun-j2sdk1.5
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
libasound2 libgtk1.2 libx11-6 xlibs
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
which breaks nagios.
Is nagios installed from a .deb? If so, it should contain dependencies on all the packages it needs... If it did that, aptitude wouldn't decide that they "are unused" and would leave them there.
If nagios isn't from a .deb, you'll have to 'unmarkauto' all the packages that it depends on... or make a .deb for it.
TTYL.
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