Bug#153530: apt-get installs packages even if I say "n"
On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 16:55, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 01:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > However, I have evidence that it didn't work last time. From the
> > original submission:
> >
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org woody/main bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.99
>
> There are certainly ways that this output could have appeared, even if 'n'
> was not the first key pressed. For example, if you had a 'y' in the input
> buffer, and then typed 'n' at the prompt, the string received by APT would
> be 'yn', which would be interpreted as 'y'.
Hmmmmmmm. At the time, I was in gnome-terminal 1.4.0.6 and had done
a "middle-click paste" of an "apt-get install <blah>".
There's a "y" in "woody", so that may be it. Last night when I
tried it and it worked, I had manually typed the command in.
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