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geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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type="cite">Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu
systems. Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not
knowing which ones,
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I did a list of them using:
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dpkg --get-selections > installed-software
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Then I used grep to weed out only the installed ones, and went to the
other system and entered:
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dpkg --set-selections < installed-software
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Then I tried to do a dselect, which wants to delete several packages I
really want to keep.
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Is there any way to keep those packages? Or at least find out which
ones are forcing removal of it, so I can deselect them?<br>
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aptitude has a reverse dependency tracking tool. You can look at a
package, and ask "which package X on it", where X can be, among other
things, conflict. This should tell you which packages are causing your
package to be removed.<br>
<br>
Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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