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  r208542 | mvanbaak | 2009-07-24 16:35:49 +0200 (Fri, 24 Jul 2009) | 13 lines
  
  use aptitude for debian based systems
  
  The function to check wether we need to install packages was using
  dpkg-query which was gives wrong output on Debian 5
  
  Also, the apt-get has been replaced with aptitude because aptitude
  is now the preferred way to handle packages on Debian
  
  (closes issue #15570)
  Reported by: mvanbaak
  Patches:
        2009072400_installprereq-aptitude.diff uploaded by mvanbaak (license 7)
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contrib/scripts/install_prereq

@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@ in_test_mode() {
   test "$testcmd" != ''
 }
 
-# Fixme: should be done by apt and not by dpkg?
 check_installed_debs() {
-	 dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Status} ${Package}\n' "$@" 2>/dev/null \
-	 | awk '/ not-installed/{print $4}'
+	aptitude -F '%c %p' search "$@" 2>/dev/null \
+	| awk '/^p/{print $2}'
 }
 
 # parsing the output of yum is close to impossible.
@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@ check_installed_rpms() {
 handle_debian() {
 	# echo "# Distribution is Debian or compatible"
 	extra_packs=`check_installed_debs $PACKAGES_DEBIAN`
-	$testcmd apt-get install -y $extra_packs
+	$testcmd aptitude install -y $extra_packs
 }
 
 handle_rh() {