Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sunday 12 June 2016 08:42:51 David Wright wrote:
> 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?
>
IDK, its a root application.
> Do you run any other applications with ncurses? Do you run them
> remotely through ssh? Are they a problem too?
I have 3 ssh -Y sessions to other machines I establish at boot time, and
mc runs there with very few problems just like it does on this machine.
Cheers David, Gene Heskett
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