What does "package is set to be manualy installed mean"?

[stan]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:24:44PM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 15 November 2010 12:35, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > rwhod is already the newest version.
> > rwhod set to manually installed.
> >
> > I alos sow this for dkms on some machines.
> >
> > What caised this? And how do I fix it so that these pakcahes are actually
> > installed and working?
> 
> The package was already on your system as a dependency of something
> else. For example installing the nvidia driver or a binary network
> driver may have pulled in dkms to ensure they get compiled each time
> the kernel is updated.
> 
> If you then "apt-get install dkms" you're saying (effectively) "I know
> you're already installed, but I'm telling you that I want you to be
> installed, even if I removed the thing that originally pulled you in".
> i.e. you _manually_ set that as installed. If you didn't do "apt-get
> install dkms" and in the future did a "sudo apt-get autoremove <foo>"
> where "foo" is the package that originally brought dkms in then dkms
> would be removed.

Thanks.

So the pacjage in question (fo0r instance rwhod) should be installed _and_
functioning? Because the reason this caught my eye is that on one of the
machines that is saying this (for rwhod), I am not seeing it's packets on
othe machines.
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