On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 11 Jun 2016 at 20:49:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 17:35:11 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > No, Gene. All created because you didn't trust the package manager. > > > Not that IMHO Synaptic is that trustworthy. ;-) I have just looked in > > > my /usr/bin. I have firefox-esr and firefox-real. So I have > > > experimented. Firefox-esr is the one aptitude installed, and is > > > Firefox 45.2.0 and Firefox is 47.0, and is the one I installed. I > > > have both in my menu, clearly labelled Firefox-esr and Firefox. I let > > > aptitude do its thing. It has left life simple. > > > > > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be > > until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen > > instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real > > estate. And it been that disaster since I first saw it 18 years ago. > > As usual, your rant is in need of some explanation as to exactly > what your problem is.
It seems obvious to me, he's talking about screen corruption. Gene, Is this when you close it down? I'd give apt-get a try, I prefer it to aptitude and esp. prefer it to synaptic. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
