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Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?



Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 06 dec 12, 23:39:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 06 dec 12, 13:34:53, Richard Owlett wrote:
CASE1
Did a fresh install on a drive where ALL partitions had been removed
with Gparted [LiveCD].
After reboot and user login
  su <CR> password <CR> apt-get install gdm gedit<CR><CR>
  apt-get install gnome-terminal<CR><CR>

CASE2
Did another fresh install on a drive where ALL partitions had been
removed with Gparted [LiveCD].
After reboot and user login
  su <CR> password <CR> apt-get install gdm gedit
gnome-terminal<CR><CR>

Ok, the answer to your riddle is here:

$ apt-cache show gdm
Package: gdm
...
Depends:
     [...]
     gnome-session | x-session-manager | x-window-manager | x-terminal-emulator,
     [...]

If you install both gdm and gnome-terminal in the same run apt will
correctly consider this dependency satisfied (since gnome-terminal
Provides: x-terminal-emulator), otherwise it will chose the first
alternative, which is gnome-session (which then pulls an entire Gnome
session via Depends and Recommends).

Hope this helps,
Andrei


Thank you. So there is no Debian bug and what I had done wasn't completely unreasonable. I've seen similar situations back in the days when it was simpler to use random logic than microprocessors.



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