Unfortunately this does not appear to have solved it after all- after running both apt-get install on the packages empathy wanted to remove (gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment, task-gnome-desktop) and apt-mark manual, attempting to purge empathy tries to remove these same packages again. I marked Empathy itself as manually installed; that didn't work either. Thanks,
Regards, Cortman On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Claudius Hubig <debian_1...@chubig.net> wrote: > Hello cortman, > > cortman <c0rt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So I ran "apt-get purge empathy" from >> the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run >> apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of "packages that >> were automatically installed and are no longer required". Below is a >> complete list. > > 0 15:36 0 claudius@ares: /media/nffs/std $ apt-cache rdepends empathy > empathy > Reverse Depends: > gnome-core > [...] > gnome-desktop-environment > > Hence, probably gnome-core and/or gnome-desktop-enviroment were also > removed when you removed empathy. These are meta-packages which in > turn pull in all the other packages. > > You will hence have to mark these other packages you want to keep as > automatically installed. Probably the best way to do this is to > choose the relevant main packages (for example, "rhythmbox") and do > > # apt-get install rhythmbox > > which should mark rhythmbox as manually installed (and therefore > won’t propose the removal of, for example, rhythmbox-data). > > Of course, you can also just mark all packages as manually installed. > > And no, this is not a bug but a feature :) > > Best regards, > > Claudius > -- > A board is the planck unit of boredom. > http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242 -- 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/cadfaa3+z2m3vc2pkfuufb-ucq+_uqv3x1td9y4mky2tg1tq...@mail.gmail.com
