[Wylug-help] unwanted packages in debian

[Stephen Patterson]

On 18 Jun 08, Felix Ulrich-Oltean (linux at felixu.com) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have Debian unstable installed and when I try to apt-get update;
> apt-get dist-upgrade, it keeps wanting to install a whole bunch of
> things I don't want, e.g. alacarte, evolution, lots of gnome stuff,
> etc.
> 
> I've tried to use synaptic and dselect and even dpkg --get-selections
> to unselect those packages for reinstallation, but they keep
> appearing.  How can I check which package is dependent on these
> packages?

'apt-cache show' is your friend, as is (much slower) aptitude.


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