Re: funny character on man page of aptitude

[Bob Cox <debian-user@lists.bobcox.com>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 16:38:31 +0300, Pavlos Parissis (p_pavlos@freemail.gr) wrote: 

> The man page of aptitude has some funny charters around the options which make the manual a bit unreadable. Here is a snapshot
>  <package>\fB+\fR
>                Install <package>.
> 
>  <package>\fB+M\fR
>                Install <package> and immediately mark it as automatically installed (note that if nothing
>                depends on <package>, this will cause it to be immediately removed).
> 
>  <package>\fB-\fR
>                Remove <package>.
> 
>  <package>\fB_\fR
>                Purge <package>: remove it and all its associated configuration and data files.
> 
> 
> $ cat /etc/debian_version
> 4.0
> $ dpkg-query --show aptitude
> aptitude        0.4.4-4

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438725  has quite a lot
about this.

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