Author: Christian Marillat Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: How to remove deb-multimedia-keyring package from apt-get autoremove list.
"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@???> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:48:34AM +0200, Christian 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.
>
> Can't you just 'apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring'? No need to
> remove it first in my experience.
If a package is already installed another install does nothing. In that
case you need to use the --reinstall option and then the package is
reinstalled but the package remain autoinstalled.
> Or you can do 'apt-get unmarkauto deb-multimedia-keyring'
This option exist ? I see nothing in the manual page.
