On Sun, 26 May 2013 20:14:49 -0400 Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:35:15PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 25 mai 13, 15:49:44, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > > You know your stuff. I've just never got the hang of using > > > aptitude in interactive mode, even with most people considering > > > that it's *easier*. Go figure. :) > > > > It's easier once you are comfortable with it. It does take some > > learning. If you are familiar with mutt and vim it will be easier > > though. > > I use aptitude from my shell, just not interactively. ;) > Here's a tip I discovered yesterday, after having yet another go at making sense of the idiocies it was proposing. I use LibreOffice, for example, but it wanted to install OpenOffice, some of a total of 125 new packages I neither want nor need. If you've never actually used aptitude interactively in anger, your New Packages number may be large, possibly tens of thousands, and this appears to be the source of its insanity. Go to the Action menu, and Forget New Packages. Suddenly, my aptitude was sane and got on with the job in hand, which was just as well as a new Synaptic had started freezing X, and I really wasn't keen on fixing the current log-jam with apt-get. This is sid, by the way, which is currently an interesting place to be. -- Joe -- 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/20130527144240.3688e...@jretrading.com
