On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 22:39, Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: >> But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages >> I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they >> are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might be keeping them >> installed, but when I selected that for removal, several packages I want >> to keep (for example, quodlibet, which is not marked as automatically >> installed and does not depend gconf2) were also marked for deletion. I >> don't understand why that would be. > > I've always found that the best way to sort out package dependancies is > to use the full-screen mode of aptitude. Pick one of the packages you > don't want any more, select it, go down to see what depends on it and > choose one of the ones that its installed, etc. > > Or, you can simple mark the package for removal, which will 'break' the > other packages, hit 'b' to be taken to the first broken package and see > what's going on. > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
Agree, aptitude is the greatest package manager I've ever seen~ Wang Long -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
