Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-6 Trying to install lm-sensors, aptitude is trying to pull in unrequired packages. apt-get behaves okay (no additional packages).
Inline are an aptitude install, apt-get install and aptitude show. Attached in dpkg -l output. aptitude install lm-sensors Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: i2c-2.4.27-2-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 The following packages have been kept back: abiword abiword-common adduser apt apt-utils aptitude aptitude-doc-en bsh curl fontconfig kernel-package libcurl3 libfontconfig1 libgcrypt11 libgnutls12 libjessie-java libruby1.8 libsmbclient ruby1.8 samba samba-common samba-doc smbclient smbfs syslinux The following NEW packages will be installed: i2c-2.4.27-2-386 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 lm-sensors lm-sensors-2.4.27-2-386 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 32.2MB will be used. apt-get install !$ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: lm-sensors-source kernel-image-2.6 i2c-source sensord read-edid Recommended packages: lm-sensors-mod-2.9.2 The following NEW packages will be installed: lm-sensors 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. Need to get 475kB of archives. After unpacking 1368kB of additional disk space will be used. aptitude show lm-sensors Package: lm-sensors New: yes State: not installed Version: 1:2.9.2-4 Priority: extra Section: utils Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 1368k Depends: makedev (>= 2.3.1-45) | devfsd, ucf (>= 0.28), sysvinit (>= 2.85-19), sed (>= 4.0.5-1), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libsensors3 (>= 1:2.9.2), perl Recommends: lm-sensors-mod-2.9.2 | kernel-image-2.6 Suggests: lm-sensors-source | kernel-image-2.6, i2c-source | kernel-image-2.6, sensord, read-edid Description: utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
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