On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:18:08AM +0100, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: > On 18-12-16 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >well, the suse complaint is gone now. > > > >aptitude still tries to install a huge set of unwanted packages. > >apt works just fine. > > > >Is there some aptitude-only status file that I could just delete so > >that aptitude has to recostruct it from apt-get's data? > > |aptitude --clean-on-startup > > According to the manpage should clean the cache. I only use apt so i did not > test it.|
That cleans out the cache. Which would be good if I had any packages from the suse that someone stuck into the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. And I might ... and I might even have some of these installed ... But is there somewhere that aptitude remembers what packages it is *supposed* to install? That's probably what I need cleared. > > > >Would it help to uninstall and purge aptitude and then install it > >again using apt? Or would I end up risking borking the system's > >package management? > > > >-- hendrik > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
