Debian Packages Question

[Scott Berry]

Right on thanks for the cues.On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> 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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