Translations by Noritada Kobayashi

Remove obsolete package files after downloading new package lists

URL to use to download changelogs

Display a preview of what will be done before doing it

If this option is enabled, then when you ask aptitude to perform an install run, it will first display a summary of the actions it is going to perform.

Forget which packages are "new" whenever the package lists are updated

If this option is enabled, then aptitude will clear the list of new packages after you update the package lists (e.g., by pressing 'u').

Forget which packages are "new" whenever packages are installed or removed

If this option is enabled, then aptitude will clear the list of new packages after you perform an install run or install or remove packages from the command-line.

Do not display a warning when the first change is made in read-only mode

If this option is %Bnot%b enabled, aptitude will display a warning when you modify the state of a package if you do not have permissions to apply the change to the system.

Warn when attempting to perform a privileged action as a non-root user

If this option is enabled, aptitude will warn you when you attempt to perform an action which you do not have permission to do: for instance, installing packages as a non-root user. You will be given the option to log in as root and perform the action with root privileges.

File to log actions into

When you install or remove packages, a summary of what aptitude does will be written to this file. If the first character of the file name is a pipe character ('%B|%b'), the remainder of the name will be interpreted as a shell command that is to receive the log on standard input.

Automatically resolve dependencies of a package when it is selected

If this option is enabled, aptitude will use a simple heuristic to immediately resolve the dependencies of each package you flag for installation. This is much faster than the built-in dependency resolver, but may produce suboptimal results or fail entirely in some scenarios.

Automatically fix broken packages before installing or removing

If this option is enabled, and you perform an install run while some packages are broken, aptitude will automatically apply the current suggestion of the problem resolver. Otherwise, aptitude will prompt you for a solution to the broken dependencies.

Install recommended packages automatically

If this option is enabled and "automatically resolve dependencies" is also enabled, aptitude will attempt to install the recommendations of newly installed packages in addition to their outright dependencies. Suggestions will not be automatically installed. If this option is enabled and "Remove unused packages automatically" is enabled, packages that are recommended by an installed package will not be automatically removed.

Remove unused packages automatically

If this option is enabled, packages that are automatically installed and that no manually installed package depends on will be removed from the system. Cancelling the removal will flag the package as manually installed. If this option is enabled and "Install recommended packages automatically" is enabled, automatically installed packages will not be removed if any installed package recommends them.

Packages that should never be automatically removed

Packages matching this search pattern will always be treated as if an installed package depends on them: they will never be targeted for removal as unused packages.