On Thursday 14 January 2016 17:39:59 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 01/14/2016 10:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 14 January 2016 16:18:08 Johann Klammer wrote: > >> Synaptic runs on your box? > >> Years ago, when I tried it, it would always crash right on > >> startup.... use aptitude. It seems a lot more stable... > > > > Back on list where it belongs. > > > > I just ran it, and its obvious it doesn't reference the same > > database of installed files that apt and synaptic use. It just now > > wanted > > AFAIK, It does use the same database. Your system seems hosed... > Are you running it on the box that the OS is installed on, or on some > (boot... ,whatever) client?
Directly on the os and box connected to this keyboard, no vpn's or anything else involved. > > to "upgrade" or sidegrade, 292 packages. Refreshing the list didn't > > help but it reminded me of the 4 color screens we had on the amiga's > > back in the amigados-1.3 days. Positively an assault on the > > eyeballs. > > press u to update. I did, didn't affect its faulty judgement a bit. It still wanted to update nearly 300 packages. > > But when an uptodate system is said to have 292 old or defective > > packages on it, I'm not sure I want it mucking around in MY used car > > lot. > > what kind of defective? broken? that means the dependencies are not > met... Press e to start the interactive resolver. > a and r to accept or reject. I'd have no clue what its doing in the background when I do that. FWIW, I had it hose the system on my laptop about 4 years ago with exactly this sort of a starting point. I'll pass as its 99.99% working right now. > > For what its worth, as root, an apt-get update, followed by an > > apt-get upgrade reports 0 package to upgrade. > > > > From that it would appear aptitude is confused at best, broken at > > worst. No comment? Seems like the above report does warrant some sort of a reply. > > All of these tools are, AFAIK, supposed to be using the same > > sources.list, and the same installed list. update-manager does but > > Obviously aptitude is not. > > > > I believe I'll stick to using synaptic. +10 Thank you Johann Klammer. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
