Re: Debian Packages Question

[Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>]

Hi.  Forget is used to "forget new packages".  If you run stable, it
isn't useful for much.  On an unstable system, packages added to Debian
since the last time you did an apt-get update or an aptitude update show
up in a new packages group.
I always make sure to read the screen before I confirm I really want
aptitude to continue installing or removing packages.  It sometimes does
unexpected things.  When it decides to remove something important, just
schrole down to the package name and change it back with + or -
before I let aptitude continue.  Also, the leter g is a shortcut for
install/remove.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:38:00AM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
> Here is what I do Janina.  I use a program called Aptitude.  In this app
> you can actually go under installed applications and then pick the
> particular subcategory like docs electronics or games and then you
> choose the one you want to remove if you like.  the way to remove the
> package is to highlight the name of the package with the cursor and then
> hit the dash key on the top of the keyboard and this tells Aptitude to
> remove the package.  Then when you are actually ready to do the true
> remove just hit the f10 key and enter on install/uninstall which is the
> top object.  Then you must hit f10 one more time I think this is a
> security feature so you don't actually remove something you don't want
> to remove.  There is also a f for forget package but haven't
> successfully gotten this to work when removing packages.  What this does
> is simply delete the package from the list as long as it is highlighted
> I believe.  I haven't read much of the docs on this it was pretty simple
> to get going so I have been a touch lazzy about reading the docs.On Sun, 8
> Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian
> > system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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