mustard lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
packages that I have accidently marked when uses the ncurses
interface.
You can use '-' (or '_') as Raquel suggested. Since this method
requires that you look for the dependencies that
Justin Guerin wrote:
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:51, mustard lee wrote:
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[snip]
One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
packages
Grant Thomas wrote:
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am
a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I
wanted and,
so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which integrates the functionality of
On 18 May 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a
Clive Menzies wrote:
[ ... ]
The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will
sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuase
it wasn't used to install
[ ... ]
This is because aptitude labels packages as either automatically
installed or manually
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:04:40AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Clive Menzies wrote:
[ ... ]
The problem with mixing aptitude with apt is that aptitude will
sometimes threaten to remove packages it thinks are dependencies becuase
it wasn't used to install
[ ... ]
This is because aptitude labels
On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:51:10 +1000
mustard lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to
'unmark' packages that I have accidently marked when uses the
ncurses interface. I have no trouble marking things and
installing them, although, I
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:51, mustard lee wrote:
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[snip]
One thing thats always confused me with aptitude is how to 'unmark'
packages that I have accidently marked when uses the
Magnus Therning wrote:
[ ... ]
# aptitude unmarkauto --schedule-only '~i'
Install aptitude-doc and take a look at
file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03.html
[ ... ]
Thanks, Magnus. Worked a treat.
Chris.
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Magnus Therning wrote:
[ ... ]
# aptitude unmarkauto --schedule-only '~i'
Install aptitude-doc and take a look at
file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03.html
[ ... ]
Thanks, Magnus. Worked a treat.
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Grant Thomas wrote:
Question for you (anyone) then:
If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a
dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would
removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current
dependency for gnome and leave it?
It would
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which integrates the functionality of apt-get, apt-cache, etc.
into one utility with an optional
On Wed, 17 May 2006 14:59:26 +0200
H. Wilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of
aptitude as a tool which integrates the
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which integrates the functionality of
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:59:26PM +0200, H. Wilmer wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You cannot break anything
by using aptitude and apt-get together, but you will (partially)
neutralize many of the advantages of aptitude. Just think of aptitude as
a tool which
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better apt-get. But I've also seen cautions about
mixing the two.
I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two
years -- all the while maintained via apt-get. I've even written a
On (16/05/06 11:53), Rick Reynolds wrote:
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better apt-get. But I've also seen cautions about
mixing the two.
I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two
years -- all the while
Rick Reynolds:
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better apt-get. But I've also seen cautions about
mixing the two.
Mixing the two is generally a bad idea since aptitude tracks which
packages you really wanted to install and which ones just
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Rick Reynolds:
[snip]
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
so
Ron Johnson:
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
so
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote:
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better apt-get. But I've also seen cautions about
mixing the two.
You might try searching the archives for articles confirming what
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote:
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better apt-get. But I've also seen cautions about
mixing the two.
You
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just an
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:31:40PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds
wrote:
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising
aptitude as a better
Grant Thomas schreef:
For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long
time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost
several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,
so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just
Grant Thomas wrote:
Question for you (anyone) then:
If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a
dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would
removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current
dependency for gnome and leave it?
Aptitude does
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