Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad
On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anything. It was asked to add one
> > thing which in now way depended on anything removed. That is what
> > puzzles me. And
>
> I don't know why it would do that. Well, it shouldn't ask about
> deleting one thousand packages if you asked it to install one package...
> but it certainly is supposed to ask about installing that one package
> *after* informing you that it would remove one thousand packages in
> order to do that.
Yes. I expressed myself badly. I was having difficulty seeing the screen and
therefore typing. If I ask for one thing and it asks no questions at all I
expect it to install only one thing. If it wants to install a load of
dependencies, or, even worse, remove half the system, I expect it ot ask
me!!!
> Note that I am assuming neither of you did "aptitude -y", that would be
> bad and would also explain what happened.
I used bash's history to confirm that I had had no such mental aberration. It
confirmed that, after the root screen prompt, I had typed:
aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb
and nothing else - well, <enter>, of course.
Lisi
>
> > And why did ctrl-C have no effect at all?
>
> Try this when you open a root session (in a typical console, and
> certainly in a typical graphical terminal):
>
> stty sane
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