change from apt-get to aptitude

[Yoram Hekma]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:50:24PM +0100, habtool wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 15:34 +0200, Kogler Johannes wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > As yet I've always been upgrading our Ubuntu systems with apt-get. Due
> > to recommandations to use aptitude instead of apt-get I would like to
> > update the systems by using the aptitude command for the future.
> > 
> > When I try to get aptitude's intended actions by "aptitude -sfy
> > install", I see that aptitude would delete 23 packages. These packages
> > are shown as automatically installed, although some packages have been
> > manually installed. In every action aptitude wants to remove these
> > packages. Is there a possiblity to change the package states of these
> > packages from automatically to manually installed without removing them?
> > 
> > Thanks for your answer!
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Johannes Kogler
> > 
> 
> 
> You could explicitly install those packages, I think that will solve
> this issue:
> 
> sudo type aptitude install package-names-it-wants-to-autoremove
> 
> You could also look into debfoster
> 
> 
> 
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In the curses interface you could also press "m" to mark the package
as manual.
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