Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 22:39, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote:
>> But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
>> I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
>> are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might be keeping them
>> installed, but when I selected that for removal, several packages I want
>> to keep (for example, quodlibet, which is not marked as automatically
>> installed and does not depend gconf2) were also marked for deletion. I
>> don't understand why that would be.
>
> I've always found that the best way to sort out package dependancies is
> to use the full-screen mode of aptitude. Pick one of the packages you
> don't want any more, select it, go down to see what depends on it and
> choose one of the ones that its installed, etc.
>
> Or, you can simple mark the package for removal, which will 'break' the
> other packages, hit 'b' to be taken to the first broken package and see
> what's going on.
>
> Doug.
>
>
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Agree, aptitude is the greatest package manager I've ever seen~
Wang Long
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