Re: REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"
On 05/29/2022 09:31 PM, David wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 01:28, Richard Owlett wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using aptitude's visual mode. That has multiple problems: 1. My original goal description was inadequate. 2. My target environment has changed. 3. From his description I don't completely grok how to use aptitude's visual mode. The man page is not helpful as it is not intended to be a tutorial but more a reference work to refresh the memory of one already familiar with a specific tool. I searched for a tutorial covering the visual mode. *BUT* the ones I found only mentioned it in passing and all examples were pure command line. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00296.html I had forgotten that thread. Reading the complete thread will prevent me from duplicating work I've already done. Thank you. It pointed to [https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch01s01s01.en.html] which demonstrated that yesterday I had correctly invoked aptitude's visual mode. That I received a "black screen" in response suggests I have system problems - which I suspected. I had already planned on installing current Debian on another machine.
Re: REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"
On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 01:28, Richard Owlett wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using > aptitude's visual mode. > > That has multiple problems: >1. My original goal description was inadequate. >2. My target environment has changed. >3. From his description I don't completely grok how to use aptitude's > visual mode. The man page is not helpful as it is not intended to > be a tutorial but more a reference work to refresh the memory of > one already familiar with a specific tool. I searched for a > tutorial covering the visual mode. *BUT* the ones I found only > mentioned it in passing and all examples were pure command line. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00296.html
REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"
In my original post [1] I said: I'm in the process of doing some idiosyncratic minimalistic installs using the "--no-install-recommends" option of apt-get. What I would like to do is enter the package name. The tool's response would be a list of the recommended packages and their associated description from packages.gz. At the moment the referenced repository would be a distribution DVD. berenger.mo...@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using aptitude's visual mode. That has multiple problems: 1. My original goal description was inadequate. 2. My target environment has changed. 3. From his description I don't completely grok how to use aptitude's visual mode. The man page is not helpful as it is not intended to be a tutorial but more a reference work to refresh the memory of one already familiar with a specific tool. I searched for a tutorial covering the visual mode. *BUT* the ones I found only mentioned it in passing and all examples were pure command line. Clarifications: 1. What I'm looking for would essentially depict the gemological relations resulting from apt-get install --no-install-recommends mate-desktop-environment [Something resembling a hierarchical directory tree desired.] 2. The tool would be run under Debian 9.13 with MATE DE. The data would be from the then current repository of Debian stable. 3. I'd like a pointer to a tutorial showing the actual usage of aptitude's visual mode. Entering just "aptitude" in MATES terminal gives a BLACK screen. Entering "aptitude /" in MATES terminal gives an error scree ending "This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers." TIA [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg00365.html
