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I wanted to crop an image, and I realized I didn't have the Gimp (recent reinstall). So I did an "aptitude install gimp", and two of the dependencies jumped out at me, samba-common and smbclient. I was just curious if anyone knew why I needed samba to run gimp?
# aptitude install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
foomatic-filters gimp-data gimp-print gimp-svg gs-esp gutenprint-locales
libcroco3 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgimp2.0 libgnomecanvas2-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
libgsf-1 libgutenprint2 libgutenprintui2-1 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-bin
librsvg2-common libwmf0.2-7 samba-common smbclient
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lpr
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
foomatic-filters gimp gimp-data gimp-print gimp-svg gs-esp
gutenprint-locales libcroco3 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgimp2.0
libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecups1.0-1
libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0
libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgsf-1 libgutenprint2 libgutenprintui2-1
librsvg2-2 librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common libwmf0.2-7 samba-common
smbclient
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lpr
0 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.3MB of archives. After unpacking 92.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
# aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable Release
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Sources
Fetched 1B in 0s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
#
Also here's the contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list...
Very strange! I see that you are using the unstable branch; maybe that has something to do with it. Otherwise, I have no explanation of what is going on. Does aptitude install only dependencies, or dependencies and recommended packages? You might want to compare the actions of aptitude install gimp and apt-get install gimp.
Last edited by Harold on 2005-09-25 21:11, edited 1 time in total.
# apt-get install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gimp-data libgimp2.0 libwmf0.2-7
Suggested packages:
gimp-help-en gimp-help gimp-python libgimp-perl gimp-data-extras
Recommended packages:
gimp-svg gimp-print
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp gimp-data libgimp2.0 libwmf0.2-7
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
Need to get 9993kB of archives.
After unpacking 30.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
#
Strange thing when I run aptitude without arguments to get the ncurses based package browser, I don't see those samba packages as dependencies for gimp.
Here's my aptitude version. If someone is running the same version of aptitude perhaps you can see if you get the same thing I do.
# apt-get --version
apt 0.6.41 for linux i386 compiled on Sep 5 2005 23:04:11
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
Idx: Debian Source Index
Idx: Debian Package Index
Idx: Debian dpkg status file
#
Launch aptitude. On the menu, go to Options / Dependency Handling. Uncheck Install recommended packages automatically. Try aptitude install gimp again.
Harold, thank you. You were right, I had to uncheck "Install Recommended packages automatically" and "Remove unused packages automatically" in Options->"Dependency handling" before aptitude would give me a sane list. Thank you very much.
By the way, and very off topic, where are you from in Illinois, I'm down in Carbondale myself.
Might be like GnomeVFS and how tons of programs depend on it because of gnome filesystem browsing functionality. Maybe like smbfs support for saving. Doubt it though. Debian does have a little issue with providing too much along stock. For instance, never do the "Desktop Environment" option on a stock install, unless you are prepared to download around 700mb of binaries and install nearly double that of stuff you'd never use.
