Re: Aptitude From Testing
On 2010-05-14 21:36 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an
> 'aptitude' binary?
Not me:
,----
| % readlink -f =aptitude
| /usr/bin/aptitude-curses
`----
> Typing 'aptitude-curses' is a little annoying. I'm assuming the rename is
> because of work on aptitude-gtk and aptitude-qt. If so, wouldn't using the
> alternatives system for an 'aptitude' symlink make sense?
It makes perfect sense, that's why it is actually used. If there is no
aptitude symlink for you, you are probably experiencing corruption of
dpkg metadata (/var on btrfs):
http://bugs.debian.org/575891
http://bugs.debian.org/575137
Sven
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