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Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude



Jörg-Volker Peetz:
>
> First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package:
> 
> aptitude why-not <package-name>

$ sudo aptitude install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  bind9-host obex-data-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libbluetooth2{a} libfam0 nbsmtp wterm
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  alacarte alsa-base alsa-utils apache2.2-bin{pu} apache2.2-common{pu}
  app-install-data apt-listchanges aspell aspell-en at-spi avahi-utils awesome
-- snip 

Just one example:

$ aptitude why-not alacarte
Unable to find a reason to remove alacarte.

All other packages I have tried give the same result.

J.
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