On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Larry Shields wrote: > > > I am in need of some help on not wanting some packages to be removed > when I try using either apt-get install (package name), or using > Synaptic...They both want to remove alot of packages that I do not want > to do a total of 512... > > At one time I had this very same problem, I had mentioned it to one of > my debian user friends, he had told me to edit out the packages in a > certain script, which did eliminate this problem, but since that time I > have forgotten where it was located, or what it was called...??? He > also does not remember at this time... > > So might anyone know what I need to do to eliminate the wanting of > synaptic, or apt-get to want to remove a bunch of files...??? > > Any help on this would be very much appreciated... > > Thanks Larry >
Sounds like you should have a look in /etc/apt/ and peak around in the apt.conf. Should have the entries for the attitude of apt. (check the apt manual on debian.org http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto) Good luck, ,Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]