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Re: REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"



On 05/29/2022 09:31 PM, David wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 01:28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

berenger.morel@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using
aptitude's visual mode.

That has multiple problems:
    1. My original goal description was inadequate.
    2. My target environment has changed.
    3. From his description I don't completely grok how to use aptitude's
       visual mode. The man page is not helpful as it is not intended to
       be a tutorial but more a reference work to refresh the memory of
       one already familiar with a specific tool. I searched for a
       tutorial covering the visual mode. *BUT* the ones I found only
       mentioned it in passing and all examples were pure command line.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00296.html


I had forgotten that thread. Reading the complete thread will prevent me from duplicating work I've already done. Thank you.

It pointed to
[https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch01s01s01.en.html]
which demonstrated that yesterday I had correctly invoked aptitude's visual mode. That I received a "black screen" in response suggests I have system problems - which I suspected.

I had already planned on installing current Debian on another machine.



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