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Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface.

Aptitude is a quite powerful package manager leveraging CLI and an ncurses-style interface. It includes very powerful conflict resolution, and uses a very similar command-line syntax to apt. Often, its powerful resolution engine can help fix package trouble that apt cannot. It is part of the aptitude package.

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How to remove warnings like `Unknown media type ...`

Each time apt-get tries to process triggers for shared-mime-info, it reports warnings like: ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type…
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how do I install Aptitude on Ubuntu

I was trying to install MemCached using this command: sudo aptitude install memcached, but I got the following error: sudo: aptitude: command not found. After researching, I found out that Aptitude is an utility program to manipulate files, install…
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Why does aptitude insist on installing packages?

Why does aptitude want to install so many packages when I simply run the following? sudo aptitude install I'd rather not provide specific packages it wants to install because this has happened plenty of times in the past (though I'm not entirely…
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Will aptitude be added back in 12.04 or future versions?

Since there is more space in the ISO (750MB for now) for the 12.04 version and the limit of 700MB is removed, has there been any thoughts about adding aptitude to the command line tools. I ask this since, even though apt-get is recommended, I still…
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how to uninstall all packages installed by "aptitude build-dep"

Is it possible to undo all changes made by "aptitude build-dep xxxxxx" i.e to un-install all dependencies installed by this command?
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How to force aptitude to display each search result in multiple lines?

When I am using "aptitude search", usually some results will be too long to be held in the console window. So are there any ways to display each result in multiple lines, so that I can see the full sentence? Thank you. Snapshot:
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Remove aptitude's "Press Enter To Continue" after installations

Whenever I install/update with the curses interface of aptitude, it keeps the log window open and asks you to press enter. Can I just let aptitude skip this and return to the main screen if nothing went wrong?
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What, exactly, does aptitude's ?origin() search term match against?

Because it doesn't seem to be the same string as is produced by the %O display format escape, nor the URL from sources.list.d. In my case, I'm looking for packages which I installed from non-Ubuntu sources and the trouble I'm having can be seen in…
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Aptitude - disable saving selections

If I mark packages to install in aptitude but I exits from aptitude without installing this packages aptitude remember this selections. How to prevent aptitude to remember this selections? I want to run aptitude with cleared selections, like in…
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Show available/installed version in the output of aptitude search

Is it possible to make aptitude show the available/installed version of a package in an output of aptitude search mypackage? I know that I can show the version via aptitude show mypackage, but I want it it to appear also in the output of an aptitude…
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aptitude state is corrupt - how do I fix it?

It appears that the aptitude state is corrupt - note that apt-get and the other dpkg tools still work fine. Is there some way to reset the state of aptitude? Signs of corruption: aptitude search shows packages as 'p' (purged/never installed) when…
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Aptitude trying to remove a lot of packages

I'm trying to install libmysqlclient-dev with aptitude and it keeps saying it will remove these packages: The following packages will be REMOVED: esound-common gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gyp javascript-common libaudiofile1 libc-ares-dev libc-ares2…
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kolab 3.0 sources

I'm attempting to install Kolab 3.0 following these steps on 12.04 Server, yet showpkg still shows 2.2.4 :~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kolab.list deb http://mirror.kolabsys.com/pub/ubuntu/kolab-3.0/ precise release updates deb-src…
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Prevent aptitude from Removing

Is there any way of forcing Aptitude to not accept solutions using Removes? I tried various values of Aptitude::ProblemResolver::RemoveScore and cannot seem to make it work.
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Aptitude: everything is marked as auto removable

I have botched some settings up pretty bad with synaptic/aptitude. A while back I did something with synaptic that marked all of my installed packages as "manual". I was trying to fix this but ended up setting them to be all flagged as auto…
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