Author: Richard Danter Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Dumb dpkg/aptitude question
2008/6/6 Alan Pope <alan@???>: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:36 +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
>> gdebi pulls in a lot of extra packages I don't want on my server.
>> Trying to keep it lean and mean.
>>
>
> I'd be interested to know what. Gdebi uses the same system as
> apt/aptitude, so it should bring in whatever is required. My server
> happens to already have x installed and a bunch of other stuff, so maybe
> that's why mine only pulled in a little. Still I'd expect your aptitude
> install to match gdebi mostly.
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gconf2 gconf2-common gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
hicolor-icon-theme libcroco3 libffi4 libfontenc1 libfs6 libgconf2-4
libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common
libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 liborbit2 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common libstartup-notification0 libvte-common libvte9 libxtrap6
libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 python-cairo python-glade2
python-gobject python-gtk2 python-numeric python-vte x11-session-utils
x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xbase-clients xinit
Suggested packages:
librsvg2-bin python-gobject-dbg python-gtk2-dbg python-numeric-dbg
python-numeric-ext python-numeric-tutorial mesa-utils
Recommended packages:
libgnome2-perl libpam-gnome-keyring python-gtk2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gconf2 gconf2-common gdebi gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
hicolor-icon-theme libcroco3 libffi4 libfontenc1 libfs6 libgconf2-4
libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common
libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 liborbit2 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common libstartup-notification0 libvte-common libvte9 libxtrap6
libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 python-cairo python-glade2
python-gobject python-gtk2 python-numeric python-vte x11-session-utils
x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xbase-clients xinit
0 upgraded, 46 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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OK, so 50MB isn't that much but it is 46 packages that I don't otherwise need.
