cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > 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.
He might be, except I've never seen screen corruption when running aptitude. I like aptitude when I'm searching for packages or doing updates; I like apt-get when I'm just installing a package whose name I know.
