On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:59:21AM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: [...] > answer as I see it is this. When starting aptitude, aptitude updates > its own packages list by reading in the dpkg state and merging it with > its own list. > > Now there's several bugs posted on aptitude (check bugs.debian.org) > about its command line interface. Apparently, this loading of the > package cache doesn't happen completely or reliably in command line > mode, resulting in aptitude not knowing about any packages you > installed with apt-get, or manually set to hold with dpkg (and not > with aptitude). Running aptitude and going in the curses interface > should be a reliable workaround.
Oh, thank you for clarifying that. I've seen various threads on the apt-get/aptitude problem, but never met any problem myself. I usually use aptitude running in the curses interface, and only occasionally do 'apt-get install somepackage'. By luck I've avoided aptitude in CL, and that has evidently saved me from blundering into another quagmire. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]