Re: is the jessie/stretch aptitude broken?
On Friday 02 February 2018 20:10:51 Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Running an ayufan 5.15 version of a gnu-8 image on a rock64, I am
> > getting absolutely nowhere.
>
> Do you mean to say Debian 8 instead of gnu-8?
>
> It seems ayufan probably means one of these links:
>
> https://github.com/ayufan
> https://github.com/ayufan-rock64
>
> > system is text only as the X11 stuffs has not yet been installed.
> >
> > That leaves aptitude as the only menu driven package manager I
> > believe.
>
> There is also dselect but it doesn't have the friendliest of
> interfaces.
>
> Probably you could also use synaptic via something like texttop :)
>
> https://github.com/tombh/texttop
>
Interestink, but it won't run on my amd64/phenom, and likely not on an
arm64 because theres zero mention of arm's.
> > Its no secret that I hate aptitude as its torn down to unbootable, 3
> > systems for me on selecting something and hitting g to install it.
>
> Usually pressing g gives you a preview, where you can see if there are
> any package removals. Only once you press g a second time to confirm
> the changes will it do the install.
>
> > But today, on this machine, running as a sudo -i root, I cannot get
> > it to mark something and admit its marked when I hit a g.
>
> Hmm.
>
> > What steps do I need to do, to select the xfce task and install all
> > its deps?
>
> sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop
I probably should have waited. I finally did get xfce marked along with
the xorg stuffs, and its been munching away on a 10 megabaud circuit for
around 3 hours, and claims it might be done in 5 or 6 more. One mistake
was having it install ALL the docs. I forgot theres quite a bit of docs
in languages this old fart can't even sneeze. OTOH, if I want to know
about something that might not be installed, maybe I can ask for the man
pages to see if its usefull. :) However its taken a 31GB sdcard that was
at 12% when I started to around 30% now, and its only gotten to the "m"s
so far. Sigh...
What I really want to do with these rock64's, is make a pi replacement
that I can run LCNC on, but that will take building an RT kernel,
something I've already done a couple times, and probably at least a
couple weeks putzing to convert LinuxCNC's rpspi.ko into rkspi.ko,
effectively makeing the pi version run on rock64 hardware. Anyway, once
this is done I should have enough of a gui that I can run
synaptic-pkexec. Like mice and men, thats the plan, which will let me
uninstall in one swell foop, all those docs in what are to me, strange
languages.
I didn't find "build-essential" in aptitude, so thats an RSN install too.
Thanks, marked important for later study.
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