APT Is Nagging Me To Remove Things I Don't Want To Remove

[girardhenri at free.fr]

They are dependencies
they don' works with new stuff
that's why i have done a fresh install to hardy
even if you accept to remove they are some
drawbacks (specially with openoffice)
aptitude full-upgrade should do the job
adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel will update to gusty
(with bits it's better doing so... )


Dave Vincenty wrote:
> Donn wrote:
>   
>> You could also try:
>> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
>> and see what it does.
>>
>> ...
>> Try the kubuntu-desktop trick mentioned by Luke first.
>>     
> Okay, I installed kubuntu-desktop again, which made me remember that I 
> probably decided to get rid of it some time ago when I removed some 
> packages it depended on, like KDM (because I downloaded some really 
> nifty GDM login screens before I switched back to KDE) and KMail 
> (because I've been doing all my mail-related stuff with Mozilla 
> Thunderbird for years), and I only remember this because those packages 
> are back on my system now, but the important thing is apt-get isn't 
> telling me to remove things anymore.
>
> Then, I went with Donn's suggestion.  Here's what aptitude wanted to do:
>   
>> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>>     
> [Same list as before]
>   
>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 246 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 511MB will be freed.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>>     
>
> I don't really think I want to continue if it's going to get rid of so 
> much stuff.
>
> I guess I could just ignore it, but why does it want to remove all those 
> packages?
>
> Is there a way to change what APT thinks ought to be removed?
>
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> ~~ dave ~~
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