Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:05:36PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> was heard to say:
> First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package:
>
> aptitude why-not <package-name>
That won't do what you think. It only shows packages that conflict
with <package-name>; if the package is being removed because it's not
used any more or because aptitude thinks its queued state is "remove",
it won't help.
I don't really understand what happened to the OP, but it sounds like
maybe there are some conflicting selection states or unused packages,
in which case he wants "aptitude keep-all".
Daniel
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