On 18/12/16 15:48, Hendrik Boom wrote: > 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. >
Could you run the original problematic aptitude command with the flags --simulate --show-deps (read the man page) and share that so we can get a view of what your seeing. Daniel. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. 021 797 722
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