On Saturday 03 February 2018 11:46:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
excedrin headache #9171 It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. I can live with that, but my sudo password doesn't give me root permissions when its time to actually do something. WTF? I've another sdcard with a fresh minimal jessie on it, a 64GB, maybe that will give me a little room to play. But I'll damn sure figure out a way to do it without aptitude. -- 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>
