Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager.
> > > Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have just looked in
> > > my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real. So I have
> > > experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude installed, and is
> > > Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the one I installed. I
> > > have both in my menu, clearly labelled Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let
> > > aptitude do its thing. It has left life simple.
> > >
> > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be
> > until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen
> > instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real
> > estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it 18 years ago.
>
> As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly
> what your problem is.
It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corruption.
Gene, Is this when you close it down?
I'd give apt-get a try, I prefer it to aptitude and esp. prefer it to synaptic.
--
The media's the most powerful entity on earth.
They have the power to make the innocent guilty
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
-- Malcolm X
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