I've periodically tried using aptitude, but always get scared off
when it seems to "run away". I'm sure it knows what's best for my
machine ;-), but is it possible to override this behavior?
$ sudo aptitude install wmmoonclock -s
...
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
groff imagemagick libconfig-inifiles-perl perlmagick python2.3 python2.3-iconvcodec
rcs texi2html weblint
The following NEW packages will be installed:
wmmoonclock
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/158kB of archives. After unpacking 21.2MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
The first time I tried this I'm afraid I didn't look "very closely" at the
REMOVED lines. Silly of me not to suspect that aptitude would choose
this time to do a clean-up of some sort, and not just install the simple
little program I asked it for.
It's odd that I can use apt-get without any hint of these problems.
Per another thread, I tried to use the "unmarkauto" command to fix things,
but apprently the need to clean things up is still there
$ sudo aptitude unmarkauto '~M!~R~i'
...
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
...
I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything
will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a
compelling reason to bother?
Ken
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Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu