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? 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... 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 > -------- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
