On Sunday 03 July 2016 17:11:43 Wes wrote: > On 2016-06-30, 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. > > Both apt-get and aptitude have an option -s (for "simulate"). > > Instead of actually doing anything, with the -s option > apt-get/aptitude will just pretend to do it (in their characteristically > verbose fashion). > > So when I'm not certain what an install or upgrade will do, I first do > > # apt-get -s [whatever-thing-I'm-considering-doing-for-real] > > -wes > > (BTW, sorry for breaking out of the thread; I'm not subscribed to the > list.)
The problem was that I thought that I knew what installing one package would do. :-( I have installed single packages to LibreOffice, and before that ot OpenOffice quite often before. One sometimes has to learn the hard way. But aptitude does usually ask! I shall be investigating this at a later date. But thanks for reminding me to use -s!!! Lisi
