Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:08:54 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 2
> > firefox
> > firefox-esr
> > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few
> > months long in the tooth.
>
> They are different. Uninstall the one you don't want. esr is long
> term support.
>
> # aptitude purge firefox-esr
> (since that seems to be the one you don't want). Or equivalent. I
> don't know the correct apt-get incantation for purge, and as you
> probably wouldn't use it, I won't for now bother looking it up. In
> Synaptic you probably find it in the installed list, and tick* it for
> removal.
>
> Lisi
> * "tick" - across-the-pond-speak for one of the meanings of "check"
Its a multiple choice popup. Here I would select the remove, but either
one tears the system down with the deps it would also remove.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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