greetings all; I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed on this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the g. There was a bare jessie image, a little under 3.5 GB on the sdcard at that point, around 20:00 last night. 32GB sdcard. aptitude just keeps selecting previously unselected stuff, that sdcard is now at 80%, working extremely slowly and apparently nowhere near done. I suspect it will die, out of disk space, perhaps next Wednesday at 3 AM, if I don't unplug it first.
rock64@rock64:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk1p7 30299144 23181512 5846304 80% / htop, on a separate login screen says its not any sort of resource constrained and is not using any swap. All of its ncurses gfx have disappeared, and I am looking at dpkg output in my login shell as it seems bound and determined to install the whole debian arm64 repo for jessie. And it has not yet installed synaptic-pkexec. So how _do_ you control this application? I'm at this point, ready to re-write that image to a 64GB sdcard, and spend days using apt to pull stuff I need in one package at a time. I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its interpretation of dependencies will leave you with an unbootable, destroyed system. Its done that to me several times already. So when do we get a default, just works, does _only_ what you ask it to, text/ncurses based package manager with a bare bones arm64 install? Something you can actually build a working system with? Sigh. While I am up on my soapbox about this, that set of html docs on aptitude someone pointed me at, is that available in a printable pdf? Link plz if it is. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
