Re: Aptitude From Testing
On 2010-05-14 21:50 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2010 14:36:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an
>> 'aptitude' binary?
>>
>> 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?
>
> I think I may have been hit by bug 575137. I am using btrfs, and there were
> some issues during the install, but I do not believe I have suffered any file
> system corruption in the dpkg databse or the aptitude package.
That would be rather unlikely. Make sure you use dpkg >= 1.15.7 before
proceeding.
> In particular, (debsums -a aptitude) reports all the files are in good
> condition. (update-alternatives --display aptitude) shows:
> No alternatives for aptitude.
That _is_ dpkg (or rather, u-a) database corruption…
> I initially installed 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 on this system, but have since
> upgraded to 0.6.1.5-3. Is there a good way for me to establish an alternative
> that will not mess up on the next upgrade?
Just reinstall aptitude, or run
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude /usr/bin/aptitude-curses 30
Sven
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