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strange problem after dist-upgrading

Asked by Pablo Marchant

I just dist-upgraded my ubuntu intrepid yesterday, and now aptitude says there are a lot of packages wich were automatycally installed and are no longer needed. For example, there is cheese, latex-beamer, many texlive packages, etc...

Many of these packages were manually installed by me, and I dont want the system to consider they must be removed. How do I accomplish this??

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Best Arnaud Soyez (weboide) said : 		#1

Hi,
What you can do is:

Open synaptics,
At the bottom left, there are a few buttons, click on "state".
Then in the list above, select "installed (automatically removeable)" (or something like that, sorry my ubuntu is not in english).
Then you should see the list of packages that ubuntu thinks must be removed.
Just select those you want to stick with, and go into the package menu, and uncheck Installed Automatically.

This should help you.

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Pablo Marchant (pamarca) said : 		#2

Thanx!