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Re: Ceres upgrade wants to remove fdisk

dummy@example.com (mknoop) — Thu, 28 May 2020 20:19:09 +0000

OK. I ran apt-get install fdisk and part of the actions said that fdisk was set to manual install. If I understand now, fdisk was only installed as a dependency of some other packages, and those were either removed or removed fdisk from their dependencies. I thought fdisk was one of the basic installed utilities, but I guess it is not.
Thank you.

Re: Ceres upgrade wants to remove fdisk

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Thu, 28 May 2020 20:09:03 +0000

Do you actually understand what the autoremove option does?

If you want to keep fdisk than either install it explicitly or run

# aptitude unmarkauto fdisk

Re: Ceres upgrade wants to remove fdisk

dummy@example.com (mknoop) — Thu, 28 May 2020 19:56:33 +0000

No luck. I checked fdisk dependency requirements, and all the packages were installed and with version requirements met. I looked through the pre-depends and I could not see any in the list of yesterday's upgrades. Curious. Of course, I could have missed something, but I don't think so.

Re: Ceres upgrade wants to remove fdisk

dummy@example.com (xinomilo) — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:27:50 +0000

i also have fdisk installed in ceres/amd64, but seen no such thing in upgrade/autoremove.
it seems another package was to blame.. check apt.log to see what recent packages installed/removed might have caused this..

Ceres upgrade wants to remove fdisk

dummy@example.com (mknoop) — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:58:00 +0000

I ran my usual apt-get update and apt-get upgrade --autoremove on a ceres installation in a qemu-kvm vm today. All went well, but when I reran the apt-get upgrade --autoremove, as I usually do, it was going to remove fdisk. That just does not seem right. I said no for now.