On 2014-03-07 Paul E Condon wrote:
> There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
> within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
> the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
> background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and i
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
> > how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it
^^^
> Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I can
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
> > Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
> > reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', i
On 20140311_185125, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote:
> > In the meantime, I'll
> > use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important
> > details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude.
>
> Or even aptitude at the CLI?
I had
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
> Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
> reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to
> as 'visual'. I'm sure it will b
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote:
> In the meantime, I'll
> use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important
> details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude.
Or even aptitude at the CLI?
Lisi
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On 20140311_135115, Klaus wrote:
> On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only
> > comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of
> > this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal
> > wo
On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote:
> When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only
> comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of
> this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal
> works.
There is a short explanation in the
On 20140310_35, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
> > within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
> > the text display. Now all I get is a whit
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
> within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
> the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
> background. I get this i
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and in Xfce terminal.
Both terminal emulators are
Daniel Burrows writes:
> the bash completion stuff is actually stored in
> /etc/bash_completion, which is part of the bash package.
$ apt-file search /etc/bash_completion|wc -l
500
$ apt-file --fixed-string search /etc/bash_completion
bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:38:43PM +0200, Sven Joachim was
heard to say:
> On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> > I did:
> >
> > # aptitude purge mplayer
> >
> > . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
> > command,
>
> That's because bash reads t
On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I did:
>
> # aptitude purge mplayer
>
> . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
> command,
That's because bash reads the completion code only once, when it starts
up. Try starting a fresh shell, e.g. with "exec b
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I did:
>
> # aptitude purge mplayer
>
> . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
> command,
> and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
>
> Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
> `aptitu
I did:
# aptitude purge mplayer
. After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' command,
and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
`aptitude purge' to do?
Thanks
Rodolfo
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
> > formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
>
> No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as muc
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. Synaptic's interface is
"pretty", but seems quite clunky compared to aptitude's. As far as I
know, it's also missing one of aptitude's most useful (even/especially
for beginners) features, automatic handling of packages dragged in by
dependencies.
It'
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:40:54PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
> >
> > Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
> > becaus
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
> using synaptic to install and update packages.
>
> As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
>
> Aptitude tells me that there is a brok
On (04/11/06 05:51), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
> using synaptic to install and update packages.
>
> As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
>
> Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and sug
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
> using synaptic to install and update packages.
>
> As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
>
> Aptitude tells me that there is
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
>
> Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
> because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base,
> exim4-daemon-light, ft
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
because of dependency problems, I remove ex
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:06:19AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> The point which I was trying to make -- which point has been lost in
> this thread -- is that, particularly for those who are new to Debian and
> for those who are not "power users", it almost always is much better to
> use Syn
The point which I was trying to make -- which point has been lost in
this thread -- is that, particularly for those who are new to Debian and
for those who are not "power users", it almost always is much better to
use Synaptic than to use Aptitude or to regress to apt-get, etc.
Considering the
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
> > formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
>
> No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as muc
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> edit /etc/apt/apt.conf
> in there, there is a line that has something like:
>
> blah blah proxy= false
>
> just remove it leaving the first line
>
Cool. I just did that and so hopefully the next upgrade will go more
smoothly. Thanks for that ti
BTW, it's not that synaptic is particularly bad or anything -- there
have been other attempts at improved package managers in debian, like
"console-apt" and "gnome-apt", and synaptic at least seems more polished
than they were.
There's a lot of information to present to (or hide from) the user, an
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
> formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as anyone), and gave
up after a while.
> Synaptic is aware of depend
On (03/11/06 17:06), cothrige wrote:
> Unfortunately I have not gotten listbugs working yet. It exits with
> an error and some complaint about a proxy. I will have to look into
> its configuration, I use no proxy and so can't imagine what the
> trouble is. I should have copied the error and so I
Miles Bader wrote:
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic.
For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control
for package management in Debian.
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. S
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Others have mentioned Synaptic, I found when playing with Ubuntu it was
> very easy to use but it seemed to do strange things and I inevitably use
> aptitude to upgrade and install. Aptitude is a steeper learning curve
> but well worth the effort. I
On (03/11/06 12:47), cothrige wrote:
dd> * Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hmmm. Sounds like perhaps 'aptitude upgrade' is a little safer for
> the newbie. Would you agree? I think I will stick with that for now,
> and perhaps start using the UI for installing individual packages as I
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic.
>
> For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control
> for package management in Debian.
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. Synaptic's interface is
"
cothrige wrote:
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude
upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed
to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a
fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like
to get so
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> When you 'aptitude upgrade' aptitude will upgrade those packages for
> which all the dependencies are resolved and won't break anything. When
> you use aptitude interactively and press 'U', you will see every package
> that can be upgraded to a highe
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote:
> In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references
> to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for
> "Upgradable Packages" and so I started nosing around in there,
> thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this en
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude
upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed
to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a
fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like
to get some idea of how the
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