On Thursday 30 June 2016 12:27:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I ran > # aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb > and aptitude just carried on without asking as is correct when there > is only one package; but it proceeded to uninstall my entire desktop > environment, hundreds of packages. I couldn't believe it and used the > bash history to confirm that that was ALL I had typed. Moreover, it > wouldn't respond to control-C. > > Whatever happened????? > > <groan. Sinks head in hands> > And it isn't even my computer. > > Lisi
I know that face in palm feeling well Lisi, it bit me in a similar manner about 2 weeks ago. And was just as unstoppable. Its a right PITA, and aptitude has now be declared personna-non-grata on my 4 systems. apt-get was able to put me back together eventually. Thats not excusable behavior, but whats worse is that debian's people are denying there is a problem. 'scuse me? I swear, they couldn't smell coffee with a nose full of it. 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>
