On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:33:39 +0100 Vanuxem Grégory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le samedi 05 mars 2005 à 16:43 -0500, Ed Tomlinson a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused > > packages... Well it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is > > must be wrong... Me thinks I'll revert to apt-get - aptitude seems > > very broken. > > > > Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64? > > Ed > > > > grover:/usr/bin# aptitude upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information > > Initializing package states... Done > > Reading task descriptions... Done > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > > xfs xfwp xnest xvfb > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > cpp-3.3 g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gij-3.3 ifupdown imagemagick > > libgcj-common libgcj4 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libmagick++6 > > libmagick6 libobjc1 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev perlmagick tora > > 18 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not > > upgraded. Need to get 16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 10.6MB > > will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > > Abort. > > grover:/usr/bin# ps -ef | grep xfs > > root 4793 1 0 15:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs > > -daemon root 7452 7334 0 16:37 pts/1 00:00:00 grep xfs > > > > > In aptitude, > : type 'g' (processing) > in unused => open, select xfs and all package that you want keep (no > package depend on it) > and type 'm' > > man aptitude => info aptitdse (section unused package) Hoewever he uses aptitude as commandline (didn't know that's possible) without GUI. So he can't select this. Carsten