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etherape install -> autoremove gnome-bin

Asked by thecec

Hi all, I'm running gutsy.

I just installed etherape from apt-get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gnome-bin libgtk1.2 libglib1.2 libfluidsynth1 libgnomeui32 libgnome32
  libjack0.100.0-0 libart2 libgnorbagtk0 gnome-libs-data imlib-base
  libgtk1.2-common liborbit0 gdk-imlib11 libgnomesupport0 ladcca2 scummvm
  libgnorba27
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  etherape
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/388kB of archives.
After unpacking 971kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package etherape.
(Reading database ... 158893 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking etherape (from .../etherape_0.9.7-1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up etherape (0.9.7-1) ..

This is kinda worrying...

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This question was originally filed as bug #199063.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

Thanks for this question.

There is nothing to worry about. Every time apt-get installs something, it also checks if there are any packages that had been automatically installed due to dependencies, but because of changes in dependency, or because the dependent packages has been removed, that it is not necessary anymore.

As long as you do not execute 'apt-get autoremove' no packages will be removed automatically.

I hope this helps.

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thecec (francesco-rigotti) said : 		#3

Sry for my misposted question;

thanks for the explanation!

But is there a way to exclude these packages from the autoremove?
Cause if one year from now I forget about it and I do an autoremove, I will remove all those fundamental packages.

Thx for the tempestivity of ur answer

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Best Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#4

You can just run

apt-get install <packagename1> <packagename2> ...

with all your packages you don't want have autoremoved and they should disappear from the list.

Hope this helps.

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thecec (francesco-rigotti) said : 		#5

Perfect, that fixed my problem.

Thx a lot

Long life Ubuntu!