On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote:
>
> After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and
> upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies,
> but I'm also getting:
>
> E; Packae '<package name>' has no installation candidate
>
> or <package name> is alerady the newest version (<version number>)
>
> dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | wc -l
> 209
>
> Which is lower than before, but aptitude still runs for hours resolving
> dependencies and exhausts RAM and swap.
With aptitude you might want to try running
aptitude keep-all
> The remaining lines begin with
> 'ri' and 'rc'.
The 'rc' packages shouldn't be a problem (see the header of the output
of an explanation of the flags) and getting rid of them should be as
simple as
aptitude purge '?config-files'
The 'ri' means 'dpkg' thinks they are installed, but remove was
requested.
If you still need them try downloading the .deb files and passing them
to `dpkg -i` otherwise pass the list to one of `apt purge`,
`aptitude purge` or `dpkg --purge`.
Or it might be taken care of by `aptitude keep-all` ;)
Hope this helps,
Andrei
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