Something I have taken to doing lately is to, at least on occasion, use the aptitude TUI. Once you get your head around the interface and its use, it is a very powerful way to upgrade your system, including very fine-grained control of the cleaning up the cruft on your system.
--b On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Heddle Weaver <weaver2wo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On 20 June 2011 17:57, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> > On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote: >> > >> > [snip sid problems] >> > >> > I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the >> > package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider >> > re-installing? >> >> David's misadventures are tracked in http://bugs.debian.org/630608. >> Nobody else seems to be able to reproduce the problem. >> > > I had an issue tonight when upgrading. > Libre office didn't upgrade, it seemed to uninstall and I found it again in > 'uninstalled packages'. Reinstalled it and I'm back in action. > I'm studying and submitting work done in Libre Office that is supposed to > be done in Word and none of them seem to be able to spot the difference. > If I'm late a day or two in submitting they don't seem to mind. > SID doesn't seem to be any different to what it is normally. > Freezing for a minute or two, but that's just part of it. > Regards, > > Weaver. > -- > > Religion is regarded by the common people as true, > by the wise as false, > and by the rulers as useful. > > — Lucius Annæus Seneca. > > Terrorism, the new religion. > > >
