Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Sat, 12 May: > I have at last upgraded my desktop PC from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. > At one stage, the aptitude package was removed. But I used dselect to > re-install it and so could proceed with installation. > > Moral: avoid marking packages as automatic in aptitude, unless you > really need them only when another package is installed.
well actually I haven't ran dselect in years... I would run "apt-get install aptitude". I don't think you mark packages as auto, it's more like aptitude marks them "auto" by default if you never selected them. What you want to do is once you selected a package and it auto-added a few more "automatic" packages, go over the list and force select them if you want them to stay regardless of the package that added them. -- One for the books Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
