Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 02:02:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 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.
> >
> Basically, when you back up,
So this would be a sequence of actions like:
Select an uninstalled package with "+"
Press "g" to install it
See a huge list of dependencies and get cold feet
Press "q" (your screen messes up)
Press "^U" to revert the selection made earlier
> or close a text reader,
So this would be like:
Move to a line with an installed package
Press "C" to read the changelog
Press "q" (your screen messes up)
> it doesn't clean up
> to a clean screen. Its easier to quit it, and restart it than it is to
> regain a usable screen display.
Is that what you mean? Do you get the same behaviour if you run
aptitude as non-root?
Do you run any other applications with ncurses? Do you run them
remotely through ssh? Are they a problem too?
Cheers,
David.
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