On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 12:55 PM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes it was, and no solution was offered that I read about. And no, > aptitude is not a replacement. used it once or twice, wasn't impressed, returned to apt-get and apt-cache search, which work extremely well, and have done since debian began. never had *any* problems - at all - that weren't caused by doing something incredibly stupid such as "ctrl-c" in the middle of an installation (at the point where dpkg is being called), and even then, apt-get -f install in almost 100% of cases fixed the "problem that i had myself caused". really: if you ask me, relying on GUIs for something as mission-critical as installation of packages is asking for trouble. l.
