Diodon no longer required message?

[Keith]

On 12/10/20 1:36 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, 07:35 Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com
> <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, 22:11 Mark Lawrence, <breamoreboy at gmail.com
>     <mailto:breamoreboy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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[snip]

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>         The whole point is I haven't installed diodon, I've checked back
>         through
>         the terminator command history to make sure that is the case.  I
>         believe
>         that ubuntu has put it on my system as a replacement for clipit
>         but now
>         it's telling me that it's no longer needed.
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>     Not quite, something else that was installed (possibly clipit)
>     pulled in diodon, whatever it was has been removed so now the system
>     thinks that diodon is no longer needed. If you want to keep it
>     installed then run
>     sudo apt install diodon
>     And then the system will know not to autoremove it.
>
>     Colin
>

Apt-mark comes in handy here.

$ sudo apt-mark manual diodon

Changes the install status from auto to manual.

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Keith