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

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 26 January 2008, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> So it would seem that all one needs to do is manually install the
> packages that apt wants you to autoremove (without needing to
> uninstall/remove them first)

Quite so.

> - you can highlight the entire list in the 
> consol window, type 'sudo apt-get install ' (with the added space) and
> then middle mouse button to paste the entire list, then hit enter.

You can, sure.  I operate with the idea that I want to set as little as 
possible to manual installed, because it helps with cruft problems later on 
during upgrades, but this isn't a big deal.
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D. Michael McIntyre