On 2014-03-07 Paul E Condon wrote:
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and in
On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote:
When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only
comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of
this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal
works.
There is a short explanation in the
On 20140311_135115, Klaus wrote:
On 10/03/14 19:58, Paul E Condon wrote:
When in look in /usr/share/terminfo, I don't find plain xterm. It only
comes with more characters after the 'm'. I don't know what to make of
this, since I've never before had to look into how the terminal
works.
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote:
In the meantime, I'll
use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important
details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude.
Or even aptitude at the CLI?
Lisi
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to
as 'visual'. I'm sure it will be
On 20140311_185125, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote:
In the meantime, I'll
use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important
details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude.
Or even aptitude at the CLI?
I had grown
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it
^^^
Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I cannot
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
background. I get this in
On 20140310_35, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
the text display. Now all I get is a white
There is, new to me, a new feature in Aptitude. Some time in the past
within the past 18 months, I lost the ability to adjust the colors on
the text display. Now all I get is a white letters on a black
background. I get this in both gnome-terminal and in Xfce terminal.
Both terminal emulators
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org writes:
the bash completion stuff is actually stored in
/etc/bash_completion, which is part of the bash package.
$ apt-file search /etc/bash_completion|wc -l
500
$ apt-file --fixed-string search /etc/bash_completion
bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:38:43PM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was
heard to say:
On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I did:
# aptitude purge mplayer
. After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
command,
That's because bash reads
I did:
# aptitude purge mplayer
. After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer' command,
and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
`aptitude purge' to do?
Thanks
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I did:
# aptitude purge mplayer
. After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
command,
and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
`aptitude purge'
On 2009-06-04 18:16 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I did:
# aptitude purge mplayer
. After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
command,
That's because bash reads the completion code only once, when it starts
up. Try starting a fresh shell, e.g. with exec bash.
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as
The point which I was trying to make -- which point has been lost in
this thread -- is that, particularly for those who are new to Debian and
for those who are not power users, it almost always is much better to
use Synaptic than to use Aptitude or to regress to apt-get, etc.
Considering the
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:06:19AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The point which I was trying to make -- which point has been lost in
this thread -- is that, particularly for those who are new to Debian and
for those who are not power users, it almost always is much better to
use Synaptic
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
because of dependency problems, I remove
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base,
exim4-daemon-light, ftp,
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a
On (04/11/06 05:51), Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:40:54PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that,
because of
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. Synaptic's interface is
pretty, but seems quite clunky compared to aptitude's. As far as I
know, it's also missing one of aptitude's most useful (even/especially
for beginners) features, automatic handling of packages dragged in by
dependencies.
It's
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude
upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed
to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a
fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like
to get some idea of how
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote:
snip
In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references
to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for
Upgradable Packages and so I started nosing around in there,
thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When you 'aptitude upgrade' aptitude will upgrade those packages for
which all the dependencies are resolved and won't break anything. When
you use aptitude interactively and press 'U', you will see every package
that can be upgraded to a higher
cothrige wrote:
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude
upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed
to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a
fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like
to get
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic.
For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control
for package management in Debian.
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. Synaptic's interface is
pretty,
On (03/11/06 12:47), cothrige wrote:
dd * Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hmmm. Sounds like perhaps 'aptitude upgrade' is a little safer for
the newbie. Would you agree? I think I will stick with that for now,
and perhaps start using the UI for installing individual packages as I
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Others have mentioned Synaptic, I found when playing with Ubuntu it was
very easy to use but it seemed to do strange things and I inevitably use
aptitude to upgrade and install. Aptitude is a steeper learning curve
but well worth the effort. If
Miles Bader wrote:
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic.
For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control
for package management in Debian.
That seems like a pretty dubious assertion.
On (03/11/06 17:06), cothrige wrote:
Unfortunately I have not gotten listbugs working yet. It exits with
an error and some complaint about a proxy. I will have to look into
its configuration, I use no proxy and so can't imagine what the
trouble is. I should have copied the error and so I
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as anyone), and gave
up after a while.
Synaptic is aware of
BTW, it's not that synaptic is particularly bad or anything -- there
have been other attempts at improved package managers in debian, like
console-apt and gnome-apt, and synaptic at least seems more polished
than they were.
There's a lot of information to present to (or hide from) the user, and
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
edit /etc/apt/apt.conf
in there, there is a line that has something like:
blah blah proxy= false
just remove it leaving the first line
Cool. I just did that and so hopefully the next upgrade will go more
smoothly. Thanks for that tip.
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as
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