On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:50:43PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:12:26PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote: > >> > >>Michael, thanks very much. I have only used apt-* > >>previously, I will check out aptitude. --Don > > > >WARNING: > > > >aptitude keeps track of which packages you requested explicitly, and > >which were only installed to satisfy a dependency. Unfortunately, ir t > >only knows you explicitly requested a package if you used aptitude to > >request it. This means you may find it offering to delete important > >packages if that would solve a conflict. If it does, it's a sign you > >need to exokicitly request something using aptitude! > > > > So, if I have that right, I need to keep a close eye on > what aptitude offers to uninstall, if I previously used > 'apt-get install package' extensively?
Yes Yes Yes > And, in that case, > I can abort, and use aptitude to install/reinstall said > important packages, and after that aptitude might better > resolve the original conflict in dependencies? Yes. It might. Unless there really is a difficult conflict between the packages you want. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
