Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Clive Menzies wrote:

> [ ... ]
>
> The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will
> sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuase
> it wasn't used to install 
>
> [ ... ]
>  
This is because aptitude labels packages as either automatically 
installed or manually  installed. If you have installed some packages 
using eg apt-get, you should be able to mark all installed packages as 
manually installed before using aptitude. The command from the man page is

   aptitude unmarkauto

Unfortunately, I do not know which argument to supply.

   # aptitude unmarkauto *

seems to look at every file in the current directory, not just packages. 
Has anyone got a solution?

Chris.