will change whether a package has been marked as being automatically installed.
When you request that a package is installed, and as a result other packages are installed to satisfy its dependencies, the dependencies are marked as being automatically installed. Once these automatically installed packages are no longer depended on by any manually installed packages, they will be removed by e.g.
apt-get
or
aptitude.
markauto
-
markauto
is used to mark a package as being automatically installed, which will cause the package to be removed when no more manually installed packages depend on this package.
unmarkauto
-
unmarkauto
is used to mark a package as being manually installed, which will prevent the package from being automatically removed if no other packages depend on it.
showauto
-
showauto
is used to print a list of automatically installed packages with each package on a new line.
OPTIONS
-f=FILENAME, --file=FILENAME
-
Read/Write package stats from
FILENAME
instead of the default location, which is
extended_status
in the directory defined by the Configuration Item:
Dir::State.
-h, --help
-
Show a short usage summary.
-v, --version
-
Show the program version.
FILES
/var/lib/apt/extended_states
-
Status list of auto-installed packages. Configuration Item:
Dir::State::extended_states.
SEE ALSO
apt-get(8),aptitude(8),apt.conf(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
apt-mark
returns zero on normal operation, non-zero on error.
BUGS
m[blue]APT bug pagem[][1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
or the
reportbug(1)
command.
AUTHORS
Mike O'Connor
-
APT team
-
NOTES
- 1.
-
APT bug page
-
http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- DIAGNOSTICS
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- BUGS
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- AUTHORS
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- NOTES
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