Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and >> also (to my knowledge) not required or recommended in any way. > > Interesting. > >> "apt-get full-upgrade" wants to do the same, BTW. > > Please show the output of "dpkg -l texlive-fonts-extra".
% dpkg -l texlive-fonts-extra Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un texlive-fonts- <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gv8zfsc....@falma.de