Hello cortman, cortman <c0rtm4n@gmail.com> wrote: > So I ran "apt-get purge empathy" from > the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run > apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of "packages that > were automatically installed and are no longer required". Below is a > complete list. 0 15:36 0 claudius@ares: /media/nffs/std $ apt-cache rdepends empathy empathy Reverse Depends: gnome-core [...] gnome-desktop-environment Hence, probably gnome-core and/or gnome-desktop-enviroment were also removed when you removed empathy. These are meta-packages which in turn pull in all the other packages. You will hence have to mark these other packages you want to keep as automatically installed. Probably the best way to do this is to choose the relevant main packages (for example, "rhythmbox") and do # apt-get install rhythmbox which should mark rhythmbox as manually installed (and therefore won’t propose the removal of, for example, rhythmbox-data). Of course, you can also just mark all packages as manually installed. And no, this is not a bug but a feature :) Best regards, Claudius -- A board is the planck unit of boredom. http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242
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