On 2009-08-31 06:27 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> I don't know anything about Synaptic (never used it), but there are >> "apt-mark unmarkauto <packages>" and "aptitude unmarkauto <packages>" >> which you can use at the commandline. > > Okay, so now I've removed the gnome metapackage, and aptitude keeps wanting to > remove all of gnome. I looked at the explanations for unmarkauto, but I'm not > sure how I would use that for all of the gnome packages. I mean, not all of > them even have the word gnome in them, so what kind of wildcard argument could > I use?
You only need to do it for the reverse dependencies of the gnome metapackage; the magic command is # aptitude unmarkauto "~R^gnome$" The string in quotes is a search term, ~R stands for "reverse dependency", and ^ and $ are the standard regexps for beginning and end of the string (so that only the gnome package is matched, not other foo-gnome-bar packages). > Is there somewhere I could look for examples of how to use this command? Well, the command is trivial; what is not so easy is the search pattern, for which aptitude offers powerful, but non-obvious means. If you have the user manual in the aptitude-doc-en package installed, you can find it under file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03s05.html. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
