Quoting Toerless Eckert (2018-02-19 18:35:46) >> Please avoid sarcasm - that is *not* helpful. > >> I am genuinely uncertain if behind each or some of the sarcasm above >> was interest in understanding why Debian behaves different from your >> expectation, or you only want to conclude that it does (i.e. point >> fingers). > > Neither. I would like to understand how to make Debian do whats > needed, so that maybe i can help fixing up the wiki doc to explain it.
Thanks for clarifying - and sorry if my initial response came out harsh. > I hate to waste peoples time, so the sarcasm is only there to show > that i think i did my due diligence trying to figure out things before > asking but the confusing doc/programs had me fail. I can understand that. And I even imagine I could have written similar myself, depending on my mood. Nevertheless I felt quite distracted by your writing style - worrying too much if you were merely trolling. Therefore I appreciate your rewrite. > In a sarcasm free versoin: > > - would be good to change title and text of of 3.1 > i could not figure out what the title means and how it relates to > the content of the section. I firmly believe documentation of ways to fork Debian (which adding a non-Debian package repository to APT essentially is) belongs elsewhere, and I will therefore not take part in discussing that for our wiki page. > - aptitude search '~S ~i ~O"Unofficial Multimedia Packages"' > > This command did not work for me to identify any installed > deb-multimedia programs, it just cam back blank. Just guessing here (since this is Debian, not deb-multimedia), but perhaps deb-multimedia packages have changed their identifier? > Aptitude was also not installed by default (stretch) , but "apt" did > the same thing, albeit more verbose. > > If i didn't do something wrong here, then it seems as if this is not > the right commend to find those package > > Q: Is there a command to show the repository that a package was installed > from ? There are several commands to search in different ways, depending on what exactly you are looking for. The command I would choose is aptitude (not apt nor apt-get), because of its powerful matching engine. > Q: Is there a way to list just the explicitly installed packages > (as opposed to the ones pulled in by dependencies ?) Most minimal way is "apt-mark showmanual". Should be possible to express with aptitude too... > If there where these two commands, one should be able to easily get rid of > deb-multimedia by > (1) listing packages installed from that repository > (2) list , match the packages manually installed > (3) identify manual installed packages from the repo > (4) remove repo from /etc/apt/sources.list > (5) apt-get-update, aptitute autoclean ? > (6) remove all packages installed from the repo (1) > (7) re-install packages from (3) > > So far i've only managed to do > > dpt-query -l | grep dmo > > to half-way identify packages from deb-multimedia and remove them. I could > remember which packages i installed manually and reinstalled them. But for > documenting a recommended way to remove a repo, that is not a good reuseable > approach. Hope above may get you back a sensible system. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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