pull from the autoremove.

[NoOp]

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On 04/17/2009 07:20 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 4/17/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: pull from the
>> autoremove. To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Date: Friday, April
>> 17, 2009, 7:46 PM On 04/10/2009 02:15 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 04/09/2009 10:53 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all, Each time I apt-get somthing, I get this:
>>>> 
>>>> The following packages were automatically
>> installed and are no longer
>>>> required: xscreensaver-gl openoffice.org-draw ...
>> Use 'apt-get
>>>> autoremove' to remove them.
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, I understand. The problem is
>> 'openoffice.org-draw' and several
>>>> others are something I need. How could I pick
>> 'openoffice.org-draw'
>>>> and some others from that list and then run
>> 'apt-get autoremove' with
>>>> just autoremoving the others?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you. The fact that some usefull packages are
>> listed in this
>>>> list prevents me from running 'apt-get
>> autoremove'.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's actually a very good question... on that I
>> don't know the answer
>>> to (yet). Mine (hardy) is showing:
>>> 
>>> $ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building
>>> dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following
>>> packages were automatically installed
>> and are no longer
>>> required: gimp-help-en libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl
>> language-support-writing-en
>>> libpdf-api2-perl language-support-translations-en 
>>> openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
>> thunderbird-locale-en-gb sane
>>> openoffice.org-l10n-common gimp-help-common
>> language-support-en
>>> libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl libpod-escapes-perl
>> libtiff-tools
>>> libio-stringy-perl djvulibre-bin
>> openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au
>>> openoffice.org-hyphenation
>> openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us myspell-en-gb
>>> myspell-en-us myspell-en-za
>> openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
>>> openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-help-en-gb
>> libconfig-general-perl
>>> openoffice.org-help-en-us libpod-simple-perl Use 'apt-get
>>> autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to
>>> remove and 0 not
>> upgraded.
>> 
>> I finally got this sorted out _only_ by uninstalling and 
>> reinstalling the packages.
>> 
> That's one solution that changes the auto-installed tag to manually
> installed tag on the programs you reinstall after autoremoving.  Apt
> wont try to autoremove programs that are manually installed.  You can
> also simply change the tag from automatically installed to manually
> installed using aptitude gui or with tasksel.  HTH. Leonard
> Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 

I'm not following you. For example: openoffice.org-help-en-us (as were
all of the above) was originally installed via Synaptic. Therefore one
would _assume_ that they would have been installed properly to begin with.

I find no aptitude gui (well other than the x/terminal window DOS type
standard 'aptitude', is there some other?

How does tasksel come into play? - you've completely lost me on that one.