On Saturday 05 March 2005 05:06 pm, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:31, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > Ed, > > > > There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! > > > > The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed > > automatically to satisfy a dependency of some other program, which > > subsequently has been removed. (IIRC there are two different font servers > > that can be used with XFree86, but I can't remember the name of the other > > one.) > > > > In any case, if you wish to keep it on your system, just mark it as > > manually installed 'm' in aptitude. > > Is there any way to do this from the command line?
Not that I'm aware of. Of course, aptitude is an ncurses application, not an X application. I generally run it from a virtual console. > More to the point. Aptitude seems a little (just a little) brain dead. It > might be a REAL good idea to see if anything from the package is running > before deciding it should be removed... Generally the package scripts take care of that, but it couldn't hurt to run 'ps' and check. > Thanks > Ed > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 > > ---- > > "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC > > -------- -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
