Clive Menzies wrote:
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[ ... ] The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuaseit wasn't used to install[ ... ]
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.