geoffrey mendelson wrote:
Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu systems.
Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not knowing
which ones,
I did a list of them using:
dpkg --get-selections installed-software
Then I used grep to weed out only the installed ones, and went to the
other system and entered:
dpkg --set-selections installed-software
Then I tried to do a dselect, which wants to delete several packages I
really want to keep.
Is there any way to keep those packages? Or at least find out which
ones are forcing removal of it, so I can deselect them?
aptitude has a reverse dependency tracking tool. You can look at a
package, and ask which package X on it, where X can be, among other
things, conflict. This should tell you which packages are causing your
package to be removed.
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com
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