The Slave Master Cometh.....

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:09:48 -0700 (PDT), Bill Vance wrote:
>There's a program I use, and intend to keep on using.  Somehow or
>other, apt-get has decided that it was, "automatically installed",
>is, "no longer needed", and that I should use, "apt-get autoremove",
>to make it go away.  How can I get this, "artificially _un_intelligent
>slave master", to behave?

Before reading man pages I would try to manually reinstall it, so that
it definitively is not installed as a dependency that is unneeded.