Re: Big dummy at work again
cbannister@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> 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.
He might be, except I've never seen screen corruption when running
aptitude.
I like aptitude when I'm searching for packages or doing updates; I like
apt-get when I'm just installing a package whose name I know.
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