HOWTO: make aptitude remove unneeded depends of a metapackage

[maybeway36]

- Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...de/+bug/128681
- Workaround: edit the file.
Here is the default /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:

APT
{
  NeverAutoRemove  
  { 
	"^linux-image.*";  
	"^linux-restricted-modules.*";
	"^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
  };

  Never-MarkAuto-Sections
  { 
	"metapackages";
        "restricted/metapackages";
        "universe/metapackages";
        "multiverse/metapackages";
  };
};

You need to change it to:

APT
{
  NeverAutoRemove  
  { 
	"^linux-image.*";  
	"^linux-restricted-modules.*";
	"^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
  };
};

[frodon]

Nice guide, thanks.

May i suggest to just comment the lines rather than deleting them as it would be easier in this case to revert back the changes for those you want to do it ?

[maybeway36]

How do you comment lines in the APT directive files? Do you just begin them with #? I tried that and got:

E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:11: Extra junk after value