Re: aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:16:18PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:07, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:59:10AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > > after installing a new package, sometimes the manpage is not available > > > until I run mandb mys

Re: aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:07, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:59:10AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > > after installing a new package, sometimes the manpage is not available > > until I run mandb myself. How to fix this? > > The man page is not available *at all*? Could you p

Re: aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:59:10AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Another issue while I'm at it, though not aptitude-related as I think: > after installing a new package, sometimes the manpage is not available > until I run mandb myself. How to fix this? The man page is not available *at all

aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hi, I'm running a woody system with backports of Gnome2 and OpenOffice. And I noticed that Aptitude has at times a strange way of handling dependencies. When browsing the packages, I regularly find unmet dependencies. Well, not exactly dependencies but packages labeled 'recommended' or 'suggested