On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 02:02:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 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. > > > Basically, when you back up,
So this would be a sequence of actions like: Select an uninstalled package with "+" Press "g" to install it See a huge list of dependencies and get cold feet Press "q" (your screen messes up) Press "^U" to revert the selection made earlier > or close a text reader, So this would be like: Move to a line with an installed package Press "C" to read the changelog Press "q" (your screen messes up) > it doesn't clean up > to a clean screen. Its easier to quit it, and restart it than it is to > regain a usable screen display. Is that what you mean? Do you get the same behaviour if you run aptitude as non-root? Do you run any other applications with ncurses? Do you run them remotely through ssh? Are they a problem too? Cheers, David.
