Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 15:01, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 13:11, Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2009-04-09 21:21 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why do you use dselect to manage upgrades?  IMO, that is a nice way to
>>> torture yourself.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up. What is the best way to manage upgrades on a Sid
>> desktop?
>
> Personally, I always use aptitude in interactive (ncurses) mode, and I think
> it is especially useful in Sid. Once you learn the keys a little bit,
> it is very fast
> and easy, and helps prevent accidental removals, installs, etc.
>
> up arrow / k - up the list
> down arrow / j - down the list
> enter - expand/collapse section, view package details
> q - escape/back/quit
>
> (quitting aptitude without enacting the changes dumps all changes, if
> you mess up and get a bunch of broken packages, you can fix it manually
> or just quit and restart)
>
>
> minus key - remove
> plus key - install/upgrade
> underscore - purge
> equals key - hold
>
> (you can set these on package categories, as well as individual packages ,
> e.g. press "+" on the "upgradeable packages" category, or "=" on, say, the
> perl sub-category)
>
>
> slash - search forward
> backslash - search backwards
> b - goto next broken package
> n - next (depends on what you did; next search result,  next broken package)
>
> u - update package list
> g - go; from package listing, takes you to a list of what will be done
>   (held, installed, removed, upgraded, downgraded), press g again
>   to initiate those actions.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
>

Oh and, "m" and "M" are useful for marking and unmarking packages
as automatically installed or manually installed.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers