Rob Gom wrote:
[cut]Aptitude tries to remove automatically installed packages. If you manually install them, aptitude won't try to do this. It's not a bug. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYFThank you very much. However I don't understand the answer. Why does aptitude want to uninstall them? Are they in conflict with something else? If so, why removed packages can be installed without problem later? In other words - "_why does aptitude want to remove automatically installed packages_"? Regards, Robert
Rob Are you running lenny and picking things from sid?My theory is that are only using some packages from sid. These sid packages sometimes depend on new versions of libraries and replace old libraries in lenny. Any packages in lenny which depend on the old libraries and not the new ones (due to transition to newer software) will be automatically removed due to unsatisfied dependencies.
However, when you reinstall the packages (from sid) that got removed it will install the newer version which depend on the new libraries.
If you are running sid then you need to dist-upgrade first then all would be well.
Of course it may be none of the above :) My 2p! HTH Wackojacko