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Today I finally reinstalled enigmail after maybe a month of not having it. Then I ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade again and it wants to remove it again! No, no, bad apt!
I've tried playing around with pinning, but apparently that can't prevent removal, only up/downgrading. I saw the --no-remove switch in the man page, but I only want to prevent this one package from being removed.
It seems like there should be a way to do this ...
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http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
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This works nicely for aptitude users:
aptitude hold package_name
Failing that see section 6.12 of the Debian FAQ which discusses using dpkg, or dselect, to do the job..
Beware that this will do two things:
- Stop the package from being removed.
- Stop the package from being upgraded - even if there is a newer version of the enigmail deb available.
I'd report it as a bug and hope for a real solution..
Steve
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echo pkgname hold | dpkg --set-selectionsTo remove the hold
echo pkgname install | dpkg --set-selections--asg
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This is intended as a comment to the previous post, except I can't add comments to that post.
To input chinese, I installed the package fcitx (along with xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp), which I start up in ~/.xinitrc using:
LC_ALL=zh_CN LANG=zh_CN XIM=fcitx XIM_PROGRAM=fcitx XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx fcitx
With that, I'm able to input chinese into gaim, firefox, and thunderbird by prepending LC_CTYPE=zh_CN to the command line, e.g.:
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN mozilla-thunderbird &
To switch between typing in chinese and english, use Ctrl-. To scroll through the list of words, use "=" and "-" keys.
Hope that helps!
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