On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:53:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Symptoms:
> I've never used apache2 on the machine in question. I use lighttpd.
> "aptitude show apache2" tells me apache2 is not installed.
>
> Package: apache2
> State: not installed
(...)
> The problem:
> ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common
> ....
If a package is going to be "upgraded" means that it was installed
previously.
> This has gone on for many years, including when the system was Lenny and
> Etch before that. I've always gone ahead and installed everything
> aptitude recommends for fear of breaking something due to a dependency.
In your case, lighttpd "suggests" (not recommends) "apache2-utils" which
depends on "apache2.2-common" which requires "apache2.2-bin".
For the other ("apache2-mpm-prefork") I can't see a direct relation.
> I can't see how lighttpd or anything else would depend on anything
> apache2. If apache2, any/all of it, isn't needed, I'd like to
> completely purge apache2 from this system once and for all, and avoid
> aptitude safe-upgrade wanting to constantly install apache2 related
> packages.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
What does "dpkg -l|grep -i apache" say?
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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