[08:59] <czajkowski> tdr112: https://twitter.com/#!/RonanKirby/status/115710418034503680
[09:47] <tdr112> czajkowski: a bit too high of a job for me , but thanks for the link
[09:50] <czajkowski> tdr112: no worries
[09:50] <ebel> suppose email costs so much now-a-days....
[09:50] <ebel> :P
[09:51] <ebel> though suppose there's a lot of M-words in that posting. :)
[12:44] <dumb1224> hi
[12:45] <ebel> hello
[12:45] <dumb1224> Hi I have a question of aptitude
[12:46] <ebel> Ask away
[12:46] <dumb1224> it asks me to remove packages not need after I removed a software called rabbitvcs
[12:46] <ebel> !ask
[12:47] <dumb1224> thnks I'm fairly new to irc
[12:47] <ebel> Nothing wrong with removing old software packages if they aren't needed anymore
[12:48] <dumb1224> aptitude asked me to also remove subversion{u} python{u} etc about 9 packages which I am using
[12:50] <ebel> hmmm
[12:51] <dumb1224> same happened if I want to remove freenx which is a remote desktop control server
[12:51] <ebel> If you go "sudo aptitude install subversion" then it should remember that you want that installed
[12:51] <dumb1224> it asked me to also remove openssh-server since its not need,,tats not right?
[12:51] <ebel> (aptitude keeps track of things that are installed when you tell it to install the package and when it's installed as a dependency from another package)
[12:52] <ebel> python should be installed by default and shouldn't be removed.
[12:52] <ebel> How did you install openssh-server?
[12:52] <dumb1224> ok...what does the {u} flag mean?
[12:52] <ebel> can't remember what {u} means, miiiiight be "needs upgrade"
[12:53] <ebel> try do an upgrade & dist-upgrade. just to be safe
[12:53] <dumb1224> it was installed before freenx, but freenx requires openssh
[12:54] <dumb1224> you mean upgrade the system to the next release?
[12:54] <ebel> no, not to the next release, just upgrade all the software
[12:54] <dumb1224> it's quite old, it's an 8.04 lts
[12:54] <dumb1224> oh
[12:55] <ebel> ah
[12:55] <ebel> maybe that's what the {u} means.
[12:55] <ebel> (things need upgrading?)
[12:55] <ebel> you can stay on 8.04
[12:55] <dumb1224> hmmmm right. how do I upgrade a package using aptitude?
[12:56] <ebel> just a normal "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade"
[12:56] <ebel> that'll upgrade all the software, but keep you on 8.04
[12:56] <dumb1224> right I'll give it a try
[13:00]  * ebel goes out for lunch
[13:00] <ebel> ttyl
[13:00] <dumb1224> thanks laters!