On 2010-05-14 21:50 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2010 14:36:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an >> 'aptitude' binary? >> >> Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename is >> because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt. If so, wouldn't using the >> alternatives system for an 'aptitude' symlink make sense? > > I think I may have been hit by bug 575137. I am using btrfs, and there were > some issues during the install, but I do not believe I have suffered any file > system corruption in the dpkg databse or the aptitude package.
That would be rather unlikely. Make sure you use dpkg >= 1.15.7 before proceeding. > In particular, (debsums -a aptitude) reports all the files are in good > condition. (update-alternatives --display aptitude) shows: > No alternatives for aptitude. That _is_ dpkg (or rather, u-a) database corruption… > I initially installed 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 on this system, but have since > upgraded to 0.6.1.5-3. Is there a good way for me to establish an > alternative > that will not mess up on the next upgrade? Just reinstall aptitude, or run update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude /usr/bin/aptitude-curses 30 Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aas21bp4....@turtle.gmx.de
