Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:26 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> or just push "-" on the header of the group if you're using the curses
> interface.

That's what I thought. I press "-" on the spot marked as "*" in the following:

 Actions  Undo  Package  Resolver  Search  Options  Views  Help
C-T: Menu  ?: Help  q: Quit  u: Update  g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs
aptitude 0.4.11.8                 Will free 3301kB of disk space
--\ Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (101)
  --\ admin - Administrative utilities (install software, manage users, etc) (13
*   --\ main - The main Debian archive (13)                                     
id    aptconf                                      -360kB  0.8-0.1    <none>    
id    convertfs                                    -73.7kB 20050113-1 <none>    
id    defrag                                       -213kB  0.73pjm1-8 <none>    
id    dumputils                                    -180kB  1.0.0-1    <none>   

but nothing happens. 

further, suppose it works, after press "-", what should I do next? 

Sorry for being dense. I never use aptitude ncurses interface before. 

thanks.

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