Installing any science-* metapackage installs all science-* metapackages, that is all science applications, instead of installing only the specific category applications

[Ioannis Vranos]

OS: Ubuntu 9.10 x64.

Installing any science-* metapackage, installs all science-* metapackages, that is all science applications, instead of installing only the specific category applications.

Some of these metapackages also install obsolete (version 8.3) postgresql packages instead of the current (version 8.4) ones.

Also, removing any science-* metapackage, does not result in the removal of the related applications.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 5 20:59:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: science-config (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: debian-science
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Ioannis Vranos (cppdeveloper)]

Also removing all postgresql packages, does not result in the removal of the applications that need them.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Unnfortunally no one has handeled this in support time.

In actual Ubuntu versions this is no problem anymore:

Developer version:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/