Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Michael, see my reply to Andrei. DHCP started running by itself > > > just before I was about to re-install it. Alls well that ends > > > well. Thanks for the replies and advice. > > > > > > > Don't you hate when that happens? I mean, when you ask for help and > > then the problem just seems to magically solve itself. It happens to > > me all of the time. > > > > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the > fact kde-desktop is no longer on my machine. Now Aptitude wants to > remove all the files I just installed avahi-daemon and its > dependecies, plus dhcp3-client !!!! I was updating my machine and > this is what it told me: > > > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > avahi-daemon dhcp3-client libavahi-core4 libdaemon0 > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1339kB will be > freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > Anybody know how I can smarten up Aptitude ? It seems to think these 4 > essential ( to my machine ) packages are not needed.
Start aptitude in interactive mode and mark them as manually installed. I think 'aptitude install dhcp3-client ...' should also do the trick. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
