Re: unhappy upgrade
On Sunday 03 October 2021 07:53:39 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400
> > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
> > > I did do a download from their site. But it's not clear to me where
> > > I need to put it and how to tell the package management software
> > > about it.
> >
> > Did you download the .deb file of it? You can use dpkg to install, but
> > it won't automatically take care of dependencies. I use gdebi-core, a
> > command line utility, that will install the .deb file correctly and
> > install any dependencies. You must be root to install.
>
> You can also use this command to install a locally-downloaded .deb
> package and its dependencies:
>
> apt install ./filename.deb
Okay, I was using a bunch of diferent apt-get commands to do the upgrade. This is part of why I'm getting confused, too many tools with very similar names... :-)
That *did* install it, and also gave me a really long list of stuff that it said wasn't needed any more, but which I didn't deal with at all. I assume that the next time around the apt-get autoremove command will take care of that? It also downloaded one library to work with the package, no big deal there.
I don't see virtualbox in my applications menu. Rebooting, I am seeing a *lot* of disk activity, don't know what it's doing there, during the boot process. After it gets the whole way booted, everything is smaller on my screen! This is _not_ good for these 70-YO eyes,
I had thought initially that the program had not been installed into my applications menu. But it turns out that they changed the name! Instead of being in there under "virtualbox" it's now in there umder "Oracle VM Virtualbox", which is why I missed it.
Tried it out, it runs. I'm not going to start it right now as I'm currently still running it on this laptop, and that would not go well. I guess I need to deal with moving some files around, maybe do an rsync or something, and then shut this one down.
Incidentally the issues with Konqueror and Okular seem to have gone away as well.
Now the only thing I need to do is get things back to something like the sizes I had before so I can read 'em. Hell, I can't even read the clock in my taskbar! Any thoughts as to how to do that?
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