On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > 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.
And I have never not seen it. On several different mother boards, and probably 2x the video cards. If there is a difference, I've not a clue. > 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. 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>
