<font size="2"><font face="times new roman,serif"><b>That would make sense. Looking back through my command history the specific package I was attempting to install was the only one listed that didn't have the {a}, all the rest were dependencies and did have it. I don't typically use aptitude which is why this was new to me. Thanks.<br>
</b></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Eric Cooper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecc@cmu.edu">ecc@cmu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Arnaud wrote:<br>
> I'm installing some software packages from an old jaunty repo in<br>
> ubuntu lucid and I noticed that each of the packages had {a}<br>
> appended to the end of it. Can someone tell me what this means?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I think aptitude uses this to indicate packages that are being<br>
installed automatically to fulfill dependencies. But I couldn't find<br>
any definitive documentation of this, only an example in the man page.<br>
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