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Re: Handbrake Installation removes a lot



On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:12:04PM -0500, green wrote:
> Stephen Allen wrote at 2013-05-26 20:00 -0500:
> > Was about to install Handbrake for Wheezy, but stopped when I saw the
> > list of packages that were going to be removed. Screengrab here on my
> > public dropbox fldr: http://goo.gl/Oow9T
> > 
> > What the hell, kind of strange it wants to remove my chat clients and
> > this other stuff.
> > 
> > Expected behaviour? Thanks.
> 
> Yes, if you are using handbrake from experimental.
> 
> Aptitude's interactive dependency resolver is very useful for this.
> You can mark handbrake as manually installed, then press `e` and
> eg. reject (`r`) the proposed removal of the cheese package and `.` to
> go to the next suggested resolution.  Though probably handbrake has
> some dependency not compatible with installed packages, so there may
> be not acceptable solution without finding a backport or compiling
> yourself.
> 
> http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s02s04.html

Damn! Forgot that I had experimental in my sources. Thanks Green, I'll
remove experimental and retry.

Sorry for the noise.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen, Toronto
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