Re: apt, find circular dependencies
Hi Martin, On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? I don't know about other apt tools, but aptitude resolves these situations automatically, so long as the packages in question are marked as being automatically installed. Cheers, Tom -- Q: What do they call the alphabet in Arkansas? A: The impossible dream. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt, find circular dependencies
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 19:35:13, Tom Furie wrote: Hi Martin, On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? I don't know about other apt tools, but aptitude resolves these situations automatically, so long as the packages in question are marked as being automatically installed. Not in my experience. I installed some package to try out and on purge most of the dependencies stayed. I had to use aptitude's log to search for the culprit(s). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt, find circular dependencies
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 14:53:08, Martin Kraus wrote: Hi. Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? There was recently a thread on debian-devel about circular dependencies, IIRC the method used was also mentioned. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt-find
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: After having upgraded (using apt-get) my slink distribution (intel i386) the usefull apt-find doesn't work any more. Use console-apt, which is the what apt-find was renamed too Jason
Re: apt-find
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 12:07:08PM -0700, Mr.Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: After having upgraded (using apt-get) my slink distribution (intel i386) the usefull apt-find doesn't work any more. Use console-apt, which is the what apt-find was renamed too Jason I have update to le last slink release, not to potato. .oesse. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|d|i|n|i| +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TecnoGi spa Tel. +39 0321 885422 Strada per Gravellona Fax +39 0321 885333 Borgolavezzaro (NO) http://www.tecnogi.com Key fingerprint = B5 B4 AA 91 89 50 43 8F B1 6B C6 8C 34 79 5A 7F
