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Re: Aptitude From Testing



On Friday 14 May 2010 14:56:28 Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-05-14 21:36 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > 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

Probably.  I've upgraded to dpkg 1.15.7.1.  I am glad this version (or better) 
will be in Squeeze.

Ah, the fun of experimenting with btrfs. :)
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