On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 13:11, Nick Lidakis <nlida...@verizon.net> wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following: >>> >> >> Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades? IMO, that is a nice way to >> torture yourself. >> >> > > Thanks for the heads up. What is the best way to manage upgrades on a Sid > desktop?
Personally, I always use aptitude in interactive (ncurses) mode, and I think it is especially useful in Sid. Once you learn the keys a little bit, it is very fast and easy, and helps prevent accidental removals, installs, etc. up arrow / k - up the list down arrow / j - down the list enter - expand/collapse section, view package details q - escape/back/quit (quitting aptitude without enacting the changes dumps all changes, if you mess up and get a bunch of broken packages, you can fix it manually or just quit and restart) minus key - remove plus key - install/upgrade underscore - purge equals key - hold (you can set these on package categories, as well as individual packages , e.g. press "+" on the "upgradeable packages" category, or "=" on, say, the perl sub-category) slash - search forward backslash - search backwards b - goto next broken package n - next (depends on what you did; next search result, next broken package) u - update package list g - go; from package listing, takes you to a list of what will be done (held, installed, removed, upgraded, downgraded), press g again to initiate those actions. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
