On 6/16/23 14:38, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall.
Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after
entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is
compatible with wayland? Something I can get apt to install from a sudo
-i shell?
For Debian, the official package manager is Apt and Aptitude. See
https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude .
Jeff
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Has aptitude been tamed?
I've stayed away from it now for years because its torn the system down
with its idea of dependencies, to doing a reinstall 4 times in the
decade passed. I do not trust it at all, been burned to the ground too
many times. With apt, I was able to remove cups-browsed all by itself
with apt so the brother factory drivers could actually run my pair of
brother printers just now. I have serious doubts aptitude would have
allowed that without nuking 300 other files too. Like the kernel thats
running once. That is not an ooops but nobody seemed to notice at the
time. The arm version seems to be ok, but x86 stuff?
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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