15 Sep
2012
15 Sep
'12
10:19 a.m.
On 15/09/12 09:26, Lisi wrote:
Hello all :-)
I am doing a fresh install of Trinity, on a fresh install of Debian Squeeze,
which so far has no GUI installed.
After I issue:
aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
I get a list of 165 recommends and the question: do you accept this solution?
Well, I think that there are 165, but the first that I can currently see is
number 147. Having dismally failed to find a way to see what I am being
asked to agree to, I decided to accept all recommends, which might at least
reduce the number of things on the screen and let me see what else, if
anything, aptitude is telling me. (Oh, I do miss konsole!)
So I did:
aptitude -r install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
That made no difference at all. Still a problem, still 165 recommends (as far
as I can see), still: do you accept this solution? And I still don't know
what "solution" it is recommending. It might be suggesting _removing_ 165
packages.
So, in case I had gone bonkers and got the order wrong I tried:
aptitude install -r desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
Same result. :-(
I am fresh out of ideas. I have had enough physical problems building this
computer, without software problems as well. :-(
Help! (And thank you, of course)
Lisi
I don't know much of aptitude, I don't use it.
The "recommends" are just that, extra stuff for more functionality.
Unless you have a good reason it's normally better to install them.
If you're not sure, just accept the defaults and whatever apt-get wants
to do! You might be prompted a few times, when depends or recommends are
needed.
Installing of "recommends" is default in Debian but you can override
that if required with
<apt-get install --no-install-recommends package>
David