On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Running an ayufan 5.15 version of a gnu-8 image on a rock64, I am getting > absolutely nowhere.
Do you mean to say Debian 8 instead of gnu-8? It seems ayufan probably means one of these links: https://github.com/ayufan https://github.com/ayufan-rock64 > system is text only as the X11 stuffs has not yet been installed. > > That leaves aptitude as the only menu driven package manager I believe. There is also dselect but it doesn't have the friendliest of interfaces. Probably you could also use synaptic via something like texttop :) https://github.com/tombh/texttop > Its no secret that I hate aptitude as its torn down to unbootable, 3 > systems for me on selecting something and hitting g to install it. Usually pressing g gives you a preview, where you can see if there are any package removals. Only once you press g a second time to confirm the changes will it do the install. > But today, on this machine, running as a sudo -i root, I cannot get it to > mark something and admit its marked when I hit a g. Hmm. > What steps do I need to do, to select the xfce task and install all its > deps? sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
