Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:21:41PM -0800, evenso wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:30:40AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
> . . .
> >
> > I use aptitude (which will grow a GTK interface in Squeeze) for all my package
> > management, but I'm glad to see APT get more featureful. It's also nice to
> > see Aptitude work more seamlessly with APT.
> >
> . . .
>
> I am apprehensive about that GTK interface. It doesn't look ready to me.
>
> Mine comes up with a terminal spouting lines like
>
> libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Forget New Packages'
>
> for all the menu items.
>
> Inevitably the window freezes and stops redrawing on some function and I
> have to "killall aptitude". Last time it was when I tried to open a
> "dependencies" tab within a package info dialog. It froze on "parsing
> changelog." I haven't completed a session with aptitude GTK since it was
> only available in experimental.
OK. Turns out I am not patient enough. If I just do something else and
forget about the time. The window does come back, task completed.
>
> It is a great looking thing: the info access of Synaptic, the functions of
> Aptitude.
>
> I'll hang on to aptitude-curses out of familiarity for a year or more
> anyway.
>
> I am perfectly happy with aptitude-curses, and apt-get/aptitude at the
> command line.
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Regards,
Freeman
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answer." --Somebody
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