On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2013 20:14:49 -040 > > I use aptitude from my shell, just not interactively. ;) > > > > Here's a tip I discovered yesterday, after having yet another go at > making sense of the idiocies it was proposing. I use LibreOffice, for > example, but it wanted to install OpenOffice, some of a total of 125 new > packages I neither want nor need. > > If you've never actually used aptitude interactively in anger, your New > Packages number may be large, possibly tens of thousands, and this > appears to be the source of its insanity. Go to the Action menu, and > Forget New Packages. Suddenly, my aptitude was sane and got on with the > job in hand, which was just as well as a new Synaptic had started > freezing X, and I really wasn't keen on fixing the current log-jam with > apt-get. This is sid, by the way, which is currently an interesting > place to be.
I bet -- Used to run SID myself once upon a time. Thanks for the tip. :) -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130528102526.ga17...@thunkpad.gateway.2wire.net
