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Re: Package list problem



Daniel Santos <daniel.dlds@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes.
> 
> In my last message I don't know if it was clear but I meant that the
> package which was to be installed (terminal.app) is on the package
> list because I have some other packages that depend on it. Since the
> repository that had that package is no longer in my list, it remains
> there because some other package depends on it. Probably it is hiding
> the same package on one of the repositories configured.

Sounds kind of strange to me ... (but I'm no expert either)

> Is there some documentation on the package list format and how can I 
> search it
> for the packages that keep the phantom package in the list ?

I think you mean reverse dependencies. Try

apt-cache rdepends terminal.app

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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