Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> cbannister@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> > 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.
>
> He might be, except I've never seen screen corruption when running
> aptitude.
And I have never not seen it. On several different mother boards, and
probably 2x the video cards. If there is a difference, I've not a clue.
> I like aptitude when I'm searching for packages or doing updates; I
> like apt-get when I'm just installing a package whose name I know.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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