Re: Big dummy at work again
On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:57:33 cbannister@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
> 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.
I do use apt-get, when I can easily copy/paste what I want it to do, but
it hates my spelling otherwise. Thats my fault of course, but there it
is.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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