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. Cheers, David.