Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:08:09AM +0000, Manon Metten <manon.metten@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Hi,
>
> On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0,
> after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains:
>
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw
> openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer
>
> So I went into aptitude, searched for openoffice and manually set these
> packages to Keep. Is this common behavior or have I done something wrong?
aptitude will try to remove packages that it thinks you don't need any
more. Usually it gets this right, but sometimes it guesses wrong. When
it does, just cancel the removals and it will understand that you really
want that software. You can tell because the "A" (for "automatic") next
to the software will disappear. Press "m" (lowercase "m") to do this on
packages that aren't going to be removed. [0]
You can cancel the removals by selecting the packages and pressing "+"
or ":", or from the command-line by running "keep-all", or, if you're
feeling adventurous and you're at an aptitude prompt, by typing ":~M~g".
But you probably don't want to do the last one; I just included it to
show off.
Daniel
[0] why don't you press "a"? Because it's already taken, for
scrolling the description window up.
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