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Old 01-26-2011, 04:03 PM   #1
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How to omit a couple of update packages


I have a server running Ubuntu 10.04 server - no gui. In the list of updates today I see plymouth and plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text. Plymouth is a gui application (and not a very good one from what I recall from 10.04 alpha and beta testing days). So I don't understand why I would need it on a box with no gui.

If I use Webmin 1.530 to attempt the updates I unselect the two plymouth packages and then click Update Selected Packages. The list on the Update Packages confirmation page shows the two plymouth packages. I can unselect other packages and they do not appear on the confirmation page.

If I use apt-get upgrade I am again presented with a list containing the plymouth packages. Nothing in the apt-get man page jumps out at me as a way around all or nothing. I guess I could manually install the other 8 updates and not do the plymouth ones. I fear that they will keep appearing on the updates list each time.

Any advice, explanation or recommendations appreciated.

TIA,

Ken
 
Old 01-26-2011, 04:13 PM   #2
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You can check and see if there's a reverse depends against some other package that is installed, or whether it is just a recommend. I'm not sure if you can put a HOLD on a package that is not installed.
 
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Old 01-26-2011, 04:14 PM   #3
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As I known plymouth is neccessary for booting the system, it is not a GUI application. It is not running after system loaded.

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Old 01-26-2011, 05:02 PM   #4
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I guess I should have tacked this question onto my previous post about this issue. The packages in question are described as
Quote:
plymouth graphical boot animation and logger - main package New version 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 Lucid
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text graphical boot animation and logger - ubuntu-logo theme New version 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 Lucid
which makes me think they are graphical (gui related).

dpkg -s tells me that plymouth is in fact installed.
Quote:
ken@taylor10:~$ dpkg -s plymouth
Package: plymouth
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 444
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.9), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.17), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libplymouth2 (= 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.1), upstart-job, udev (>= 149-2), mountall (>= 2.0), initramfs-tools
Recommends: plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text | plymouth-theme
Breaks: gdm (<< 2.29.1-0ubuntu4), kdm (<< 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu6), lubuntu-plymouth-theme (<= 0.4), ubuntustudio-plymouth-theme (<= 0.38), xubuntu-plymouth-theme (<< 10.04.4)
Conflicts: usplash
Conffiles:
/etc/init/plymouth-log.conf 65d2943a69f455dec3fed43fd7996d76
/etc/init/plymouth.conf a0352db1159bc9f4322170dd78cd1dae
/etc/init/plymouth-splash.conf 5daa5d5dafaee30442e4d8d82e542c0a
/etc/init/plymouth-stop.conf f422b651bb1fe8164f968bb58e18bb6c
Description: graphical boot animation and logger - main package
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process
(even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical
boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
Why? - who knows. Canonical is getting on my last nerve this week. Tried to install a Microsoft proprietary, licensed font installer on 10.04 desktop. I refused to accept the EULA and it hosed my wine environment. Fortunately I am rather anal about backup and in a few minutes I had the system restored and told it not to install the MS font package. End of rant.

Thanks all for your assistance.

Ken
 
  


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