Playing a bit with ubuntu, and have a couple of questions:
Trying to install mdadm, but apt-get says it also wants to install a whole mess of
irrelevant 'dependencies'.
# apt-get install mdadm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
citadel-common citadel-mta citadel-server db4.6-util libcitadel1 libical0 libsieve2-1
Recommended packages:
mail-transport-agent
The following NEW packages will be installed:
citadel-common citadel-mta citadel-server db4.6-util libcitadel1 libical0
libsieve2-1 mdadm
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1330kB of archives.
After this operation, 5247kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Just to make sure that mdadm is the raid handler in ubuntu and not something else:
tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
The mdadm utility can be used to create, manage, and monitor MD
(multi-disk) arrays for software RAID or multipath I/O.
This package automatically configures mdadm to assemble arrays during the
system startup process. If not needed, this functionality can be disabled
.
First question: how do I fix this so I just get the raid package(s), not the useless stuff?
Second question: what in the world does groupware have to do with raid arrays?
So next I go to install smartmontools, and it also wants to install irrelevant packages:
# apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mailx
Suggested packages:
eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info libmail-spf-query-perl swaks
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mailx smartmontools
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2267kB of archives.
After this operation, 4977kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
This indicates a disturbing trend...
Same first question: How do I only install the package(s) I want?
Second question: Is this sort of thing typical with ubuntu?
Thanks!
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