On Thursday 10 April 2014 12:48:19 you wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2014 20:32:02 Chris Graham
wrote:
You'll be forced to
remove and re-install it in the course of fixing the dependencies.
I never have been. I aptitude install the dependencies, and when I
get to the end aptitude announces that there is a partly installed
package and installs it without my doing anything further.
Lisi
+1
It would be better to use "apt-get install --no-install-recommends
<package name>" . This will install the package and only the depends,
which you want anyway. You can configure apt to do this as the default
behavior.
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Peace,
Greg