Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
Another step forward, apt-get dist-upgrade fixed two of the held-back packages. On 28/08/15 20:13, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: I do not know a solution for this behavior but you do not need aptitude in this situation you can do apt-get dist-upgrade to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:45:51 +0100 From: Dave Turnerdave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude Message-ID:55e011af.6050...@barradas.free-online.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
Isaac, ncurses-term and ncurses-base are installed. the output of env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE is TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal my laptop is now only running xfce4, and slim is gone because I prefer to login into a terminal and then startx when I want to / need to. DaveT On 29/08/15 01:37, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. What's your terminal? Are ncurses-term and ncurses-base installed? What does this command output: env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE I ask these because I'm *guessing* that it's one of the following: -you don't have TERM pointing to an installed correct termcap/terminfo database -your localization is screwy -you have the wrong fonts (not likely unless it's a plain xlib terminal) HTH, Isaac Dunham ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: On 29/08/15 01:37, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? What's your terminal? Are ncurses-term and ncurses-base installed? What does this command output: env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE I ask these because I'm *guessing* that it's one of the following: -you don't have TERM pointing to an installed correct termcap/terminfo database -your localization is screwy -you have the wrong fonts (not likely unless it's a plain xlib terminal) ncurses-term and ncurses-base are installed. the output of env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal Maybe try running aptitude with TERM=xfce and COLORTERM=xfce or go ls /usr/share/terminfo/x/xfce4-terminal? (Here, terminfo only has xfce.) Check that you're using a UTF8 font? These are my bestt guesses; if they don't work, I'd be stumped. HTH, Isaac PS: A: Because it messes up the reading order. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
Try with: # dpkg-reconfigure console-data Aitor. On 28/08/15 13:21, Dave Turner dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
console-data was not installed so I installed it. Configured it. No difference. Rebooted. No difference. Rummaged around the interweb found assorted files to look at, reconfigured locale, had another go at configuring the keyboard. Rebooted. No difference! Anyway, thanks for the suggestion Aitor. It is all part of the fun of running 'unstable'. I'll keep surfing. DaveT On 28/08/15 13:34, aitor_czr wrote: Try with: # dpkg-reconfigure console-data Aitor. On 28/08/15 13:21, Dave Turner dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
I do not know a solution for this behavior but you do not need aptitude in this situation you can do apt-get dist-upgrade to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:45:51 +0100 From: Dave Turnerdave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude Message-ID:55e011af.6050...@barradas.free-online.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. Any ideas what is going on? I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd. What's your terminal? Are ncurses-term and ncurses-base installed? What does this command output: env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE I ask these because I'm *guessing* that it's one of the following: -you don't have TERM pointing to an installed correct termcap/terminfo database -your localization is screwy -you have the wrong fonts (not likely unless it's a plain xlib terminal) HTH, Isaac Dunham ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
