Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/12/13 22:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 dec 13, 12:21:46, Richard Hector wrote: >> >> That doesn't remove all those packages from the list. Is that a bug? Is >> there another way to cancel these planned installations? I think that's >> doable with interactive aptitude, but I'd rather s

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-03 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/12/13 22:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 dec 13, 12:21:46, Richard Hector wrote: >> >> That doesn't remove all those packages from the list. Is that a bug? Is >> there another way to cancel these planned installations? I think that's >> doable with interactive aptitude, but I'd rather s

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-03 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 03/12/13 12:55, Tom H wrote: >> >> I don't know whether or not it's a bug but this should work: >> >> aptitude remove $(aptitude search ~ainstall -F%p) > > That's great, thanks - the -F option is new to me and will be very > useful :-) Y

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 dec 13, 12:21:46, Richard Hector wrote: > > That doesn't remove all those packages from the list. Is that a bug? Is > there another way to cancel these planned installations? I think that's > doable with interactive aptitude, but I'd rather stick with the > commandline if I can. aptitud

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/12/13 12:55, Tom H wrote: > I don't know whether or not it's a bug but this should work: > > aptitude remove $(aptitude search ~ainstall -F%p) That's great, thanks - the -F option is new to me and will be very useful :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > > If I use: > > # aptitude search ~ainstall > > I get a list of packages that are marked for installation, but are > currently not installed. > > If I pick one of those, and use: > > # aptitude remove > > then the above search, that package

aptitude: cancel intended install

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, If I use: # aptitude search ~ainstall I get a list of packages that are marked for installation, but are currently not installed. If I pick one of those, and use: # aptitude remove then the above search, that package is no longer in the list. All good. However, if I use: # aptitude