Okay, after reading aptitude help a while, I tryed installing pd with pd-extended already installed on Linux. It says extended will be removed due to 1 conflict. When I expand the view it says its due to the unresolved dependency GEM.
It doesn't make much sense in my head, if I do not need GEM I shouldn't be forced to install it. I can try installing GEM to see if then pd will not uninstall pd-extended.
if my opinion can count for anything, it would be nice if we could clear out the installation of packages to a more transparent/independent way, as talked in this list.
best regards, Pedro
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Pedro Lopes pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt wrote:
I never got use to aptitude, but I think "now's the time"... :)
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.atwrote:
On 2010-05-20 14:30, Pedro Lopes wrote:
Im having a similar problem in my netbook, I have pd-extended installed
from
a deb package and if I try:
pedro@bird-nb:~$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends puredata
then i would recommend everybody to use aptitude and check why the package manager wants to uninstall pd-extended. and then resolve the issues.
everything else is guesswork, and i feel i have already spent too much time guessing.
The following packages will be REMOVED: pd-extended The following NEW packages will be installed: puredata 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
and one more guess: maybe your pd-extended was already marked for removal before that.
fghmsdf IOhannes
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