Re: aptitude cancel actions

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:01:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hi.  I'm wondering how, via the keyboard, I can select "Actions", and
> then select "Cancel pending actions", when running aptitude.  I've only
> been able to select this using a mouse.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

I don't understand what you mean. You want to tell Aptitude to do a
bunch of stuff, and then tell it to not do it?

Well you could always use Aptitude at the console, it has a ncurses
interface. Just mark the packages you want for installation and quit the
program without doing anything (Or run it as non-root, you definitely
won't break anything that way).

Or you could use aptitude's dry-run option, as follows:

$ aptitude --simulate install <whatever>


If neither of these are what you were asking maybe you should elaborate.
I just assumed you meant you wanted Aptitude to act like Synaptic.

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