16.04 problems - install, inactive/suspend, hard disk

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:11:13 -0700, rikona wrote:
>>>  sudo apt install thermald  
>
>Ran this and got "set to manually installed". Not clear to me if it
>was already installed via the command, or was already installed but
>just changed to a different designation of manually installed.



Hi,

my apologies, I just wanted to ensure that the package was updated. I
didn't know that an installed package then does get marked as manually
installed, if it was automatically installed. For apt-get it's the
same, I tested it right now:



[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-mark showmanual | grep  gnome-user-guide
gnome-user-guide
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-mark showmanual | grep yelp             
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-get install gnome-user-guide yelp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gnome-user-guide is already the newest version (3.18.1-1).
yelp is already the newest version (3.18.1-1ubuntu4).
yelp set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-mark showmanual | grep yelp
yelp
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-mark auto yelp
yelp set to automatically installed.
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-mark showmanual | grep yelp
[root at moonstudio ~]# echo $?
1



Simply run

  sudo apt-mark auto thermald

to undo it.

>Perhaps it is something that, once done, will not recur again. But, I
>did let it run for an hour, and it was still going. On the other hand,
>this is a 3 GB disk and the process may take a long time to complete.
>Will this eventually stop?

Regarding https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164849 it will
stop, if you let it run for a day or night.

Regards,
Ralf