On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anything. It was asked to add one > > thing which in now way depended on anything removed. That is what > > puzzles me. And > > I don't know why it would do that. Well, it shouldn't ask about > deleting one thousand packages if you asked it to install one package... > but it certainly is supposed to ask about installing that one package > *after* informing you that it would remove one thousand packages in > order to do that.
Yes. I expressed myself badly. I was having difficulty seeing the screen and therefore typing. If I ask for one thing and it asks no questions at all I expect it to install only one thing. If it wants to install a load of dependencies, or, even worse, remove half the system, I expect it ot ask me!!! > Note that I am assuming neither of you did "aptitude -y", that would be > bad and would also explain what happened. I used bash's history to confirm that I had had no such mental aberration. It confirmed that, after the root screen prompt, I had typed: aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb and nothing else - well, <enter>, of course. Lisi > > > And why did ctrl-C have no effect at all? > > Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and > certainly in a typical graphical terminal): > > stty sane
