I've been told that there is a way to determine why apt-get is removing
a package or is keeping a package back but I don't know what it is. When
you use apt-get to install or upgrade, it lists the packages that are
going to be installed,removed, and kept back. However, it doesn't state
why a package is removed or kept back. For example, consider the
following;
([EMAIL PROTECTED]:duckwing)# apt-get install libgnome-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gdk-imlib-dev libpng2-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libpng-dev libqt3-dev libqt3-mt-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdk-imlib-dev libgnome-dev libpng2-dev
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 835kB of archives. After unpacking 27.1MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Why is it removing the qt3 dev packages? I checked gdk-imlib-dev,
libpng2-dev and libgnome-dev for conflicts with the qt3 dev libraries,
but I don't see any mentioned. So why are they being removed on this
install? it doesn't make sense to me.
So how do I check the "why" for a package being removed or kept-back?
Thanks.
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