On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:16:21PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 10 January 2009, Mark Copper <mcop...@titaninterface.com> wrote > about 'side effects of installing gimp': > >I want to install gimp on an out-of-the-box installation of etch with > >Gnome on an AMD64 system. > > > >#aptitude install gimp > > > >says 3 packages will be installed (gimp gimp-gnomevfs and gimp-python), > >but that 91(!) packages will be removed. > > What happens if you just: > #aptitude install
Yes, that's it. I really did understand that at one point; sorry for the noise. apt-get install will only install the gimp-related packages. aptitude install will remove the exact same 91 packages. I think it must be an artifact of having been using apt-get. Mark > > You may have some packages that aptitude wants to remove because they are > marked "automatically installed to satisfy dependencies" and nothing > depends on them any more. They are safe to remove, but if you'd like to > keep them you can use: > #aptitude unmarkauto package_1 package_2 package_etc > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ Now that's a cool gnu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
