This is interesting. I'm about to build something from source. I don't want to, but I can't find an apt source anywhere. I'm going to have to build some newer-than-installed libs too, looks like, and it's probably going to get ugly. To try to make it less ugly, I wanted to install checkinstall.
aptitude is trying to remove a bunch of stuff I most assuredly DO need. I'm hacking on a KDE app. I don't want to remove these. WTF?? Broken packages? Tangled deps or recommends? I've only just started using aptitude instead of apt-get, because of a recent thread right here expounding its virtuous ability to track things that were installed along with something else, and then remove them when that thing wears out its welcome. So you don't install some-dumb-flummy-0.0.2, have it pull in 30 bizarre and otherwise useless libs, and then keep maintaining those libs needlessly in perpetuity. It sounded like a good idea. It sure doesn't seem to be working as expected. -aptitude install checkinstall Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: kapptemplate kbabel kbugbuster kcachegrind kdesdk-kfile-plugins kdesdk-misc kdesdk-scripts kompare kuiviewer poxml umbrello valgrind valgrind-calltree The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: installwatch The following NEW packages will be installed: checkinstall installwatch 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 46.9kB of archives. After unpacking 20.9MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Do I want to continue? Of course not, dolt. Back to apt-get. Just for fun, I tried kdevelop3, and got the same list of things aptitude is convinced I no longer need. No, I'm only installing a development IDE for KDE stuff. I don't need any of the kde devel stuff. What, do you think I'm going to use the IDE to develop KDE stuff? No. I'm going to use it to write bash scripts. (I'm chuckling while I write this, so don't take this rant too seriously.) So what's for it? Use aptitude to install this list of things to reaffirm that I really want them? Edit some file somewhere? What? Did I maybe lose some related package along the way without taking note? I just updated yesterday. Maybe something had to be removed without my noticing, and now that it's gone, aptitude thinks I no longer need this string of packages. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
