Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

[cortman <c0rtm4n@gmail.com>]

Unfortunately this does not appear to have solved it after all- after
running both apt-get install on the packages empathy wanted to remove
(gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment, task-gnome-desktop) and
apt-mark manual, attempting to purge empathy tries to remove these
same packages again.
I marked Empathy itself as manually installed; that didn't work either.
Thanks,


Regards,
Cortman


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Claudius Hubig <debian_1207@chubig.net> wrote:
> 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
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