On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 16:38:31 +0300, Pavlos Parissis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote: 

> The man page of aptitude has some funny charters around the options which 
> make the manual a bit unreadable. Here is a snapshot
>  <package>\fB+\fR
>                Install <package>.
> 
>  <package>\fB+M\fR
>                Install <package> and immediately mark it as automatically 
> installed (note that if nothing
>                depends on <package>, this will cause it to be immediately 
> removed).
> 
>  <package>\fB-\fR
>                Remove <package>.
> 
>  <package>\fB_\fR
>                Purge <package>: remove it and all its associated 
> configuration and data files.
> 
> 
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> 4.0
> $ dpkg-query --show aptitude
> aptitude        0.4.4-4

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438725  has quite a lot
about this.

-- 
Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/


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