On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 20:31:49 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 22:36:48 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote:
>
> > > > I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on
On 2018-10-05, Brian wrote:
>> I'm not the OP, but the place where I plan to use (apt-get) upgrade and not
>> dist-upgrade is Jessie (Debian 8).
>
> Debian 8 is obsolete; it doesn't even receive security updates.
> dist-upgrade is most unlikely to bring it to its knees.
>
I've never used
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 22:36:48 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote:
> > > I've lost track. Are you using dist-upgrade on stable or unstable?
> >
> > I'm not the OP, but the place where I
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 16:17:22 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised
> > > / confused to see the
On Friday, October 05, 2018 03:40:09 PM Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised
> > / confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority:
> > required" -- I presume that
On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 11:03:31 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised /
> confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: required" -- I
> presume that is not redundant information, but at first glance it
On Friday, October 05, 2018 07:25:29 AM Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Can someone describe (or point to) a description of how dist-upgrade
> > determines the more important app? (Oh, I'm guessing it has to do with
> > the whatever it is
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 04:57:36 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a
> particular option?
>
The important difference is that 'upgrade' (aptitude safe-upgrade) will
not remove a package without replacing it with a more up-to-date
version of
Hi.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, October 05, 2018 06:06:25 AM Reco wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > > Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a particular
> > > option?
Hi.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 05:51:09AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I'm not comfortable with anything other than "stable".
> > > When moving from one release to the next my custom is to purchase a DVD
> > > set and do a complete fresh install.
> > >
> > > However, I *am* several
On Friday, October 05, 2018 06:06:25 AM Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Can someone point me to a discussion of why one would chose a particular
> > option?
>
> Why do you need a discussion of that if you have apt-get(8)?
>
> upgrade is used to
On 10/05/2018 05:06 AM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
Just did a fresh install to another
Hi.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:57:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote:
> > On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just did a fresh install to another partition of the
On 10/04/2018 11:10 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett
wrote:
Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I
observed the current problem.
Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0
Again
On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett
wrote:
Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which
I
observed the current problem.
Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0
Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.
On 10/4/18, Glenn English wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I
>> observed the current problem.
>> Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0
>>
>> Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.
>>
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which I
> observed the current problem.
> Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0
>
> Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.
> Attempted complete removal. This time the
On 10/04/2018 07:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/03/2018 08:45 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I received an email with an attachment in .doc format.
I clicked to open with default program - LibreOffice Writer.
All I got was a brief display of the LibreOffice flash screen.
I
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