Yes, I am big on avoiding difficulties, too ;-)
Thanks very much, I appreciate your detailed comments.
Don
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Michael wrote:
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?
You always need to have a close eye on packages being additionally uninstalled.
I can abort, and use aptitude to install/reinstall said
important packages, and after that aptitude might better
resolve the original conflict in dependencies?
Possible. You can set the package status explicitly in
aptitude. But it's rarely necessary, except perhaps
setting packages on 'hold' ( = key), in which case they
won't get touched anymore, not even for upgrade. Of
course, if you remove a lib they depend on, they remain
broken. You will be shown broken things immediately
after the first 'g'.
You can configure the dependency handling, when and if
aptitude should try to fix situations. Have a look at
F10->Options. There's much useful stuff.
You can anytime see the number of actually broken
packages in the top bar, and search (/) for them
explicitly with ~b. Search has a history (arrow up) btw.
Usually conflicts are shown after 'g' in smart-scenario
view, where you can decide about the best solution.
You won't need plain apt-get anymore anyway. If you
really like to do, you can always use aptitude as
replacement from commandline. Well i don't pretend to
have seen any possible case, and usually i try to avoid
difficulties instead of solving them ;) all i can say is
it's long since i needed apt-get, and most often surely
to install aptitude on a base install. (But it's already
in there nowadays, IIRR)
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