Comments on: An admission of error http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rob http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-22917 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:21:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-22917 Try using apt-cache:

apt-cache show mirage

In the output will be the actual list of dependencies for the package from the package itself, for me it was:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), python-central (>= 0.5.8), python (<= 2.4), python-gtk2 (>= 2.6.0)

]]> By: bapoumba http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3674 Tue, 01 May 2007 16:11:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3674 sudo aptitude install aptitude-doc-en
and read /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/index.html in your favorite browser.

@ Luke: aptitude works from the command line too (that’s mostly what I am using).

]]> By: Luke http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3673 Tue, 01 May 2007 15:48:51 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3673 I always used apt for some reason. For me there was always something magical about saying:

apt-get install packagename

and watching Ubuntu doing it’s thing, rather than expanding the package tree in aptitude.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3672 Tue, 01 May 2007 15:48:29 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3672 :D That’s what I needed. From the command line it’s something like

--with(out)-recommends Specify whether or not to treat recommends as strong dependencies

I’m still tinkering with it, but I’m learning.

]]> By: bapoumba http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3671 Tue, 01 May 2007 15:35:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/an-admission-of-error/#comment-3671 Hello :)
Start aptitude in a terminal > Option > Dependency handling ;)
Aptitude installs recommends by default.

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