Re: package management begins to annoy me
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:31:29PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening.
>
> I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency
> conflicts.
>
> Still the CUI is no substitute for knowing how to use the aptitude command-
> line options well.
And indeed the FM in this case is in a somewhat unpredictable place:
/usr/share/aptitude/README
(I don't have any aptitude-doc package installed, and hence the
reference from the man page is not helpful to me)
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