Re: aptitude uncomprehension
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:09 +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote:
> hi,
>
> on a debian/sarge
>
> obsdw14:~# aptitude update
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/main Packages
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/main Release
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/contrib Packages
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/contrib Release
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/non-free Packages
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/non-free Release
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/main Packages
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/main Release
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/contrib Packages
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/contrib Release
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/non-free Packages
> Hit http://obsapt stable/updates/non-free Release
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/obs Packages
> Hit http://obsapt sarge/obs Release
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> obsdw14:~# aptitude upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> obsdw14:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> obsdw14:~# aptitude install -R fai
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> akode altgcc aspell-en build-essential cdrdao dia dia-common dia-libs
> digikamimageplugins eject esound-clients fam gimp-help-en gimp-svg
> gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits gstreamer0.8-a52dec gstreamer0.8-aa
> gstreamer0.8-caca gstreamer0.8-cdparanoia gstreamer0.8-dv
> gstreamer0.8-dvd gstreamer0.8-festival gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs
> gstreamer0.8-gsm gstreamer0.8-hermes gstreamer0.8-jpeg
> gstreamer0.8-mikmod gstreamer0.8-mpeg2dec gstreamer0.8-plugins
> gstreamer0.8-sdl gstreamer0.8-sid gstreamer0.8-speex gstreamer0.8-swfdec
> gstreamer0.8-theora gstreamer0.8-x gthumb gtk-engines-industrial
> gtk-engines-smooth gtk-smooth-themes hermes1 imagemagick jackd
> kde-i18n-de kde-i18n-fr kde-i18n-it kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
> kdevelop3-doc kdvi kghostview khelpcenter kipi-plugins kregexpeditor
> kviewshell ldso libadns1-bin libatk1.0-data libavc1394-0 libbz2-dev libc5
> libc5-altdev libcdio3 libcompress-zlib-perl libdigest-hmac-perl
> libdigest-sha1-perl libdv-bin libdv4 libft-perl libgdk-pixbuf2
> libglib2.0-data libgsm1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl
> libieee1284-3 libiso9660-3 libjpeg-progs libkcddb1 libkscan1 libmagick++6
> libmail-sendmail-perl libnet-dns-perl liboggflac1 liboil0.3
> libpaper-utils libpcre3-dev libpstoedit0 libqt3-compat-headers
> libreadline5-dev librsvg2-bin libsamplerate0 libsane libsasl2-modules
> libsidplay1-c102 libsndfile1 libsvga1 libswfdec0.3 libtool libttf2
> libvcdinfo0 libwmf-bin libwxgtk2.4-python locales lzop miscfiles
> nautilus-cd-burner openoffice.org-mimelnk perl-doc perl-suid perlmagick
> psfontmgr pstoedit psutils python-imaging python-profiler python-xml
> python2.3-f2py python2.3-iconvcodec python2.3-xml r-base-dev r-base-html
> r-base-latex refblas3-dev resolvconf samba-common sane-utils sharutils
> sketch smbclient spamassassin spamc tetex-doc texi2html ttf-thryomanes
> unzip vcdimager videolan-doc x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-konsole xli
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> fai
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> bootp dhcp3-server fai-kernels rsh-server syslinux tftpd tftpd-hpa
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 139 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 597kB of archives. After unpacking 326MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
>
> why do suddenly I get such kind of behaviour.
> it's getting me nuts.
>
> I'm wanting to install fai without the recomended package. Because this machines was installed
> with fai. I specified to use aptitude as the system to install package with fai.
have you used aptitude before?
> does some one know understand this ?
it is possible that those packages have been marked as 'automatically
installed' by aptitude and aptitude sees that no other packages are
depending on them so it is automatically cleaning up.
run aptitude in the console and hit enter on a package that is marked
for removal and see if it has a 'A' by it and also if there are any
packages that are installed that depend on it.
-matt zagrabelny
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