Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Aptitude may be better - it sure does the job. But it spends a lot of time
at every invocation on "building dependency trees" and "tag databases".
Well yes, aptitude is a huge pig of an object orient
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:52:28AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> Not so sure about that. Using a mouse doens't make things any easier.
Especially when you're having trouble with an X upgrade! I find it
useful for the software that controls the upgrade to need as little of
the system as p
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:41:50PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hmm., all these answers did not really solve my problems. I wondered, why
> aptitude did another choice of installing and uninstalling packages, although
> both are using the identical database.
They use the same package lists.
Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Lennart Sorensen:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Aptitude may be better - it sure does the job. But it spends a lot of
> > time at every invocation on "building dependency trees" and "tag
> > databases".
>
> Well yes, aptitud
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Aptitude may be better - it sure does the job. But it spends a lot of time
> at every invocation on "building dependency trees" and "tag databases".
Well yes, aptitude is a huge pig of an object oriented C++ program.
> It is therefo
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I believe the officially recommended tool in Debian is aptitude as of
the Etch release. It simply does dependancy resolution better than the
other tools. I personally tend to mostly use apt-get still, mostly out
of habit. Of course any apt-get command can be issued wit
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Dear maintainers,
it seems for me, that the commandline tool "apt", the ncurses tool "aptitude"
and the graphical tool "synaptic" might use different databases.
So I need a little more background (and knowledge) about this, otherwise I
cannot explain myself, why "apt-g
One other tool you might consider is wajig that includes the gui front-end gjig.
Apt has finally started doing logging, but have found wajig's logging to be more useful -
and a log you might not want to delete except when moving between releases.
The wajig log has saved me a lot of time in fig
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> it seems for me, that the commandline tool "apt", the ncurses tool "aptitude"
> and the graphical tool "synaptic" might use different databases.
>
> So I need a little more background (and knowledge) about
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