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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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>
