On 2018-01-16, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> Instead of using apt, next time use aptitude -f install, reason is if >> aptitude can not fix the problem it will give you a clue as what you can >> do. Also if you apt install and run 'upgrade-system' upgrade-system >> will tell what to do, and clean your system too. > > I thought aptitude was obsolated - never used it, but I think there was a > thread on the list about >
Obsolated: portmanteau of deprecated and obsolete? I thought it was merely not recommended for upgrades. PS: Have you ever performed 'apt-get moo'? (You don't need to be root.) Gives you a cow. 'aptitude moo' (if you persist by increasing the verbosity with ever more v's) produces a snake eating an elephant. Maybe that's why it may have been obsolated (illogical, Captain). PSS: Knock knock. Who's there? The interruptive cow. The interruptive c... Moo! -- Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
