Le samedi 05 mars 2005 � 16:43 -0500, Ed Tomlinson a �crit : > Hi, > > Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused > packages... Well > it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is must be wrong... Me thinks > I'll revert to > apt-get - aptitude seems very broken. > > Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64? > Ed > > grover:/usr/bin# aptitude upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > xfs xfwp xnest xvfb > The following packages will be upgraded: > cpp-3.3 g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gij-3.3 ifupdown imagemagick > libgcj-common libgcj4 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libmagick++6 libmagick6 > libobjc1 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev perlmagick tora > 18 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 10.6MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > Abort. > grover:/usr/bin# ps -ef | grep xfs > root 4793 1 0 15:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon > root 7452 7334 0 16:37 pts/1 00:00:00 grep xfs > > In aptitude, : type 'g' (processing) in unused => open, select xfs and all package that you want keep (no package depend on it) and type 'm'
man aptitude => info aptitdse (section unused package) Cheers, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
