On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:01, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 13:11, Nick Lidakis <nlida...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: >>>> >>> >>> Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to >>> torture yourself. >>> >>> >> >> Thanks for the heads up. What is the best way to manage upgrades on a Sid >> desktop? > > Personally, I always use aptitude in interactive (ncurses) mode, and I think > it is especially useful in Sid. Once you learn the keys a little bit, > it is very fast > and easy, and helps prevent accidental removals, installs, etc. > > up arrow / k - up the list > down arrow / j - down the list > enter - expand/collapse section, view package details > q - escape/back/quit > > (quitting aptitude without enacting the changes dumps all changes, if > you mess up and get a bunch of broken packages, you can fix it manually > or just quit and restart) > > > minus key - remove > plus key - install/upgrade > underscore - purge > equals key - hold > > (you can set these on package categories, as well as individual packages , > e.g. press "+" on the "upgradeable packages" category, or "=" on, say, the > perl sub-category) > > > slash - search forward > backslash - search backwards > b - goto next broken package > n - next (depends on what you did; next search result, next broken package) > > u - update package list > g - go; from package listing, takes you to a list of what will be done > (held, installed, removed, upgraded, downgraded), press g again > to initiate those actions. > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers >
Oh and, "m" and "M" are useful for marking and unmarking packages as automatically installed or manually installed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
