On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:07:29AM -0400, Matt Miller wrote: > I just installed Etch on an old Mac G3 to act as a multi-purpose > server for my house. I'm having trouble with aptitude though. When I > wanted to install postfix, aptitude wanted to install something like > 109 packages! Many of them x11 related... I used apt-get instead. > Now when I go to install MediaWiki, I get different results depending > on if i install mediawiki or mediawiki1.7. When installing mediawiki, > aptitude wants to install x11-common and mozilla-browser? What's up > with that? Do I have something configured incorrectly?
Run aptitude interactively (no parameters) and choose options. It sounds like you have the default aptitude behaviour of assuming that 'recommends' are hard dependancies. I always turn that off. Run interactively, when you tell it to 'g'o ahead, it presents a list of what it wants to do; also a list of packages recommended by packages you are installing, from which you can choose if you wish. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
