On Friday 01 July 2016 13:19:46 Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 00:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anything. It was asked to add one > > > > thing which in now way depended on anything removed. That is what > > > > puzzles me. And > > > > > > I don't know why it would do that. Well, it shouldn't ask about > > > deleting one thousand packages if you asked it to install one > > > package... but it certainly is supposed to ask about installing that > > > one package *after* informing you that it would remove one thousand > > > packages in order to do that. > > > > Yes. I expressed myself badly. I was having difficulty seeing the > > screen and therefore typing. If I ask for one thing and it asks no > > questions at all I expect it to install only one thing. If it wants to > > install a load of dependencies, or, even worse, remove half the system, I > > expect it ot ask me!!! > > > > > Note that I am assuming neither of you did "aptitude -y", that would be > > > bad and would also explain what happened. > > > > I used bash's history to confirm that I had had no such mental > > aberration. It confirmed that, after the root screen prompt, I had > > typed: > > aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb > > and nothing else - well, <enter>, of course. > > The outcome of the command may very well be due to previous history > during during the upgrade. You really need to look at that before > concluding it is aptitude itself which is at fault. /var/log/apt is > the place to scour for clues.
<gulp> Thanks, again, Brian. When I next have access to the physical computer (of which more anon) I will try to copy that so that the wisdom of the list can tell me what is wrong with it. Meanwhile, I am not going near that box with aptitude when I do get access!! Aptitude has served me well, reliably and faithfully for 14 years. I was not rushing to blame it in this case. But until I do find out what went wrong, I shall be a little nervous of aptitude. :-( My having got a little further with my next project would help here. Having, thanks to this list, got ssh going reliably over my private net (isn't avahi-daemon wonderful?!) I must get it going over the net. If I could get in that way, I could just copy the log over. But I can't get physical access, possibly for a week. Lisi
