On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:57:33 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package > > > > manager. Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have > > > > just looked in my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and > > > > firefox-real. So I have experimented. Firefox-esr is the one > > > > aptitude installed, and is Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, > > > > and is the one I installed. I have both in my menu, clearly > > > > labelled Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let aptitude do its thing. > > > > It has left life simple. > > > > > > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and > > > will be until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the > > > whole screen instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of > > > the screen real estate. And it been that disaster since I first > > > saw it 18 years ago. > > > > As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly > > what your problem is. > > It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corruption. > Gene, Is this when you close it down? > I'd give apt-get a try, I prefer it to aptitude and esp. prefer it to > synaptic.
I do use apt-get, when I can easily copy/paste what I want it to do, but it hates my spelling otherwise. Thats my fault of course, but there it is. 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>
