more user-friendly than Update manager?

Mr Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Mon May 7 20:15:57 UTC 2012


Sorry for top-posting here but I figured since my answer is so fresh 
(and I don't want you to hunt below for non-existent interleaved 
responses), I would top-post this once...

How about I run something like...

sudo apt-get remove *volution*

?

Chris

On 12-05-07 04:00 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Mr Chris Aitken<chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org>
>
> Thanks for your supplying the output to help diagnose the issue.
>
> | chris at chris-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ dpkg --list '*volution*'
> | Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | |
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> | |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> | | |/ Name           Version        Description
> | +++-==============-==============-============================================
> | un  evolution<none>          (no description available)
> | ii  evolution-data 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 evolution database backend server
> | ii  evolution-data 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 architecture independent files for Evolution
> | un  evolution-data<none>          (no description available)
> | un  evolution-data<none>          (no description available)
> | un  libreoffice-ev<none>          (no description available)
>
> You actually DO have bits (but not all) of evolution.  Evolution
> appears to be spread among several packages.  You have two packages
> with names that start with "evolution-data" installed (unfortunately
> the report appears to truncate long names).
>
>
> |>  	apt-get --just-print upgrade
>
> | The following packages have been kept back:
> |   linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic software-center
> | The following packages will be upgraded:
> |   accountsservice acpid aisleriot alsa-utils app-install-data-partner
> |   appmenu-qt apport apport-gtk apt apt-transport-https apt-utils aptdaemon
> |   aptdaemon-data apturl apturl-common at-spi2-core bamfdaemon banshee
> |   banshee-extension-soundmenu banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore baobab
> |   bind9-host binutils bluez bluez-alsa bluez-cups bluez-gstreamer brasero
> |   brasero-cdrkit brasero-common brltty bzip2 ca-certificates-java checkbox
> |   checkbox-gtk colord command-not-found command-not-found-data compiz
> |   compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-default compiz-plugins-main-default
> |   cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc deja-dup desktop-file-utils
> |   dnsutils dpkg empathy empathy-common eog evince evince-common
> |   evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common file-roller firefox
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Updates have been released for both of these packages.  That's what
> update-manager is pestering you about.
>
> If you remove them, update-manager should stop pestering you about
> them.  It might be the case that you have other packages that depend
> on them, making removal difficult.
>
> The same approach would work with the other packages update-manager is
> bugging you about.
>
> To be honest, I find it more bother to remove packages that the distro
> thought might be useful than it is to apply all updates that
> update-manager suggests.
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