severity 505467 wishlist retitle 505467 Please document options to launch aptitude in text mode thanks
Quoting Alan Braslau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.5.0-1 > Severity: important > > > According to the manual page and to the package description > "aptitude is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system." > Now, a spiffy new gtk interface fires-up. I did not ask for this. > I do not want this (if I had, I would probably have typed "aptitude-gtk"). > Quickly typing "man aptitude" or "aptitude --help", I see no immediately > obvious way of recovering the expected, curses based application. > Nor did I find anything under /etc/alternatives. > What is going on here? Is this Debian? Mais oui, c'est Debian, bon sang de bonsoir....which means that development is happening, that nice folks try to implement new things, experiment, release new code and introduce new features. This is Debian *experimental*, ie a place where you should expect surprises and also new thigns to happen, particularly during the days where Lenny is frozen for release. So, please do not inflate bug reports. I'm not even sure that such a bug report is worth it as I'm really sure that Danial Burrows will document the new GTK-related options, provide a way to easily avoid the GTK interface and even maybe provide it by default for GUI-challenged folks. In the meantime, quoting recent mails in the aptitude-devel mailing list: You can launch aptitude with the --no-gui option. You can also set Aptitude::Start-Gui to "false" in apt.conf or ~/.aptitude/config, if you want a sticky setting, then use --gui when you want to use it. PS for non French-speaking users: "bon sang de bonsoir" is a way to mumble strongly...more or less...and show that I'm somewhat deeply annoyed when someone comes up giving lessons about what Debian should be to folks (those not being /me) who develop a great tool for years and are perectly aware of what they're doing.
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