Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I go through and mark the high level packages as manually installed by > > running the install command again. Since they are already installed > > it won't do anything but mark them as being wanted. For example: > > > > apt-get install libreoffice > > Just for the archives: apt-mark is the dedicated tool to do all sorts of > markings :p (auto, manual, hold, etc.). Cool! I did not know about that command. And it appears to have been around since at least November 2007. Wow. I am really behind the times on that command. I see it also handles holding and unholding packages ala 'dpkg --set-selections' too. Neat! Thanks for pointing it out. Bob
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