Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed
>> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install
>> texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and
>> also (to my knowledge) not required or recommended in any way.
>
> Interesting.
>
>> "apt-get full-upgrade" wants to do the same, BTW.
>
> Please show the output of "dpkg -l texlive-fonts-extra".
% dpkg -l texlive-fonts-extra
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un texlive-fonts- <none> (no description available)
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