On Wednesday 01 April 2009 2:37:29 pm Phlip wrote: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > > abakus{u} aqbanking-tools{u} asymptote{u} asymptote-doc{u} barcode{u} > > basket{u} context{u} creox{u} cscope{u} dblatex{u} dvipdfmx{u} dvipng{u} > > exuberant-ctags{u} feynmf{u} > > To anyone who finds this message in the archives: > > I converted that ridiculous list of items to remove into a list of items to > install (by taking out all the linefeeds and {u}s), and ran aptitude install on > all of them simultaneously. The installer looks stable now...
Maybe what you wanted to install wanted to remove a meta-package that pulled all of those in, and since it was a meta-package, they were all marked as "automatically installed" so by you doing that you changed them to manually installed (which dont get autoremoved). -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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