On Thursday 10 April 2014 12:48:19 you wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2014 20:32:02 Chris Graham wrote:
> > You'll be forced to
> > remove and re-install it in the course of fixing the dependencies.
>
> I never have been.  I aptitude install the dependencies, and when I
> get to the end aptitude announces that there is a partly installed
> package and installs it without my doing anything further.
>
> Lisi

+1

It would be better to use "apt-get install --no-install-recommends 
<package name>" . This will install the package and only the depends, 
which you want anyway. You can configure apt to do this as the default 
behavior.


-- 
Peace,

Greg