Hi Jörg, Jörg Sommer wrote: >> You ought to find original .deb for package and install it / fetch the file >> manually then. 'apt-cache policy' will tell you about all versions of package >> apt knows of. > > Yes, all versions, but how do I get an URL? policy doesn't give a full > URL. I want something which I can pass to curl to get the package. Or use > apt to download the package (but not install it). You can try 'aptitude download package[=version]'. > No, apt should fail in the case it has to remove more packages than > given at the command line. The tool deborphan finds packages they > aren't needed. But it might get some things wrong and suggest packages > they are needed. Then the call “apt-get remove $(deborphan)” should fail. Ah, understood. Yes, such an option would be useful :) -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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