Chninkel
October 26th, 2010, 09:26 AM
Hello (not 100% sure to be in the appropriate section)
I'm using 9.10 (x64) and since this morning the update manager is trying to force me to install (not update) ant, ant-gcj, ant-..., openjdk (and associate packages), gcj, jruby, jetty, ... (~190Mb of new install, about 70 new packages).
Some are listed in the "important security update" (ant, openjdk) section, others in "recommended update" (libasm2-java, libregexp-java, ...) and "distribution update" (gcj, jetty, jruby, libswing, ...) (sorry, I don't know the actual English names of the sections since I use a French ubuntu).
They are all tagged with "(New install)" (which I had already seen for some kernel "update", but never for non-installed packages).
It also proposes an update to my current sun-java install (in "important security update")
I searched synaptic for pending installation, just in case I'd have accidentally checked some box, causing those packages to be needed (i.e. because of some dependency ...) and none are checked/nothing is marked as broken.
Is there any reason the update manager is trying to install these packages ?
I know I can uncheck the boxes ;-) , but still this is "unusual" (to say the least)
I'm using 9.10 (x64) and since this morning the update manager is trying to force me to install (not update) ant, ant-gcj, ant-..., openjdk (and associate packages), gcj, jruby, jetty, ... (~190Mb of new install, about 70 new packages).
Some are listed in the "important security update" (ant, openjdk) section, others in "recommended update" (libasm2-java, libregexp-java, ...) and "distribution update" (gcj, jetty, jruby, libswing, ...) (sorry, I don't know the actual English names of the sections since I use a French ubuntu).
They are all tagged with "(New install)" (which I had already seen for some kernel "update", but never for non-installed packages).
It also proposes an update to my current sun-java install (in "important security update")
I searched synaptic for pending installation, just in case I'd have accidentally checked some box, causing those packages to be needed (i.e. because of some dependency ...) and none are checked/nothing is marked as broken.
Is there any reason the update manager is trying to install these packages ?
I know I can uncheck the boxes ;-) , but still this is "unusual" (to say the least)