Author: Nick Morrott Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: How to remove deb-multimedia-keyring package from apt-get
autoremove list.
On 26 October 2012 09:48, Christian Marillat <marillat@???> wrote: > Hi,
>
> I finally found how to fix that by reading the apt source code.
>
> When the deb-multimedia-keyring package is displayed in the autoremove
> apt-get list this is because this package has been installed
> automatically by the debian-multimedia-keyring package
>
> ,----
> | The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> | deb-multimedia-keyring libmyth-0.26-0
> `----
>
> To fix that simply purge and then install again the
> deb-multimedia-keyring package.
>
> ,----
> | apt-get purge deb-multimedia-keyring
> | apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
# aptitude unmarkauto deb-multimedia-keyring
does the same thing without needing to uninstall/reinstall for those
users preferring aptitude.
