On Sunday 12 June 2016 08:42:51 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2016 at 02:02:45 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2016 23:04:27 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. > > > > Basically, when you back up, > > So this would be a sequence of actions like: > > Select an uninstalled package with "+" > Press "g" to install it > See a huge list of dependencies and get cold feet > Press "q" (your screen messes up) > Press "^U" to revert the selection made earlier > > > or close a text reader, > > So this would be like: > > Move to a line with an installed package > Press "C" to read the changelog > Press "q" (your screen messes up) > > > it doesn't clean up > > to a clean screen. Its easier to quit it, and restart it than it is > > to regain a usable screen display. > > Is that what you mean? Do you get the same behaviour if you run > aptitude as non-root? > IDK, its a root application.
> Do you run any other applications with ncurses? Do you run them > remotely through ssh? Are they a problem too? I have 3 ssh -Y sessions to other machines I establish at boot time, and mc runs there with very few problems just like it does on this machine. Cheers David, 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>
