Documentation: "<package> set to manual installed"
Bug #118728 reported by
Carl Karsten
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| apt (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt
wording is just odd enough that I don't know what it is trying to tell me.
carl@asus17:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xserver-
xserver-
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Revision history for this message
| Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in apt: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Iuri Gomes Diniz [ CLX ] (iuri-digizap) wrote | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Ronald Blaschke (rblasch) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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The package was installed before, as a dependency of another package probably.
Now that you've "manually" installed it, it is marked as such.
This means, that e.g. "apt-get autoremove" will not consider this package to be not required anymore if you remove the package which pulled the (now) manual installed package in (xserver-
I think this bug report should be used to
a) clarify the output of apt-get
b) add documentation about this to e.g. the man page of apt-get. I could not find anything about this feature there or in the "apt-doc" package