On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to
say:
> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will
> have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I
> enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick s
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some people find that mixing aptitude and apt-get leads to trouble.
Some people think the earth is flat.
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:53:17AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> >
> > >What GUI are you referring to?
> >
> > I think they may have been referring to synaptic package manager or
> > adept package manager.
> >
>
> Actually the GUI he was referring to is the native aptitude ui, which is an
On 09/30/2007 01:52 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:51:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
How do I get a flat package list using Aptitude 0.2.15.9 (for Sarge)?
Try this in .aptitude/config
aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "";
Regards,
Andrei
That's pretty good. Thanks Andrei.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:51:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 09/29/2007 03:53 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> I do my housekeeping in aptitude interactive mode, with a flat package
>> list (this is my default, but you can get one from the menu) where I mark
>> everything as auto-installed (press
Pál Csányi wrote:
> 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe
way of cleaning
>> house so that I can retain those packages that I need
(and want) but can
>> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?
>
> If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must
2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe
way of cleaning
> house so that I can retain those packages that I need
(and want) but can
> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?
A cleanup I like is `localepurge', which is
newbie-friendly and ea
On 09/29/2007 03:53 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I do my housekeeping in aptitude interactive mode, with a flat package
list (this is my default, but you can get one from the menu) where I
mark everything as auto-installed (press M) that I don't specifically
want. It might take a while, but apti
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:18:41PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern hemisphere
> anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard drive. In my
> enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a load of packages
> t
andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern
> hemisphere anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard
> drive. In my enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a
> load of packages that I probably don't need. One example is m
Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 09/29/2007 01:39 PM, andy wrote:
>> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I
>> will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you
>> referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick
>> scroll it looks like I'm goi
On 09/29/2007 01:39 PM, andy wrote:
I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I
will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you
referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick
scroll it looks like I'm going to have to work my way t
>
> >What GUI are you referring to?
>
> I think they may have been referring to synaptic package manager or
> adept package manager.
>
Actually the GUI he was referring to is the native aptitude ui, which is an
ncurses based user interface. Very very powerful in my opinion. Simply launch
apti
> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I
> will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you
> referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick
> scroll it looks like I'm going to have to work my way through aptitude
> to figure out
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote:
2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning
house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can
clear out the dus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote:
> 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning
> > house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can
> > clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?
>
> If y
2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning
> house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can
> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?
If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must to manually select
there pack
Hi all
Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern
hemisphere anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard
drive. In my enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a
load of packages that I probably don't need. One example is multiple
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