On Sat 28 Dec 2024 at 01:07:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 12/27/24 23:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 20:26:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff > > > blind is a pita. I want to SEE whats available. > > I know you won't use aptitude, so why don't you try running > > synaptic on wayland, decide what changes you want, and then > > use sudo apt to actually install/remove the packages. > I would do that, except highlight/copypaste does not work with either > agent. And at 90 yo, I have a hellofatime remembering 40+ character > command lines.
Perhaps you're unaware that bash-completion will complete package names for you, in a similar way to filename completion. So long as you don't think that mate-polkit is called policykit-mate, you should be able to reduce the number of characters needing to be typed. As for remembering, I was under the impression that wayland could display more than one window on the screen at the same time. I find it difficult to believe that that's not true. Do remember, however, that you'll need to refresh the synaptic screen whenever you install/remove packages, because it won't otherwise take account of the new system state. Cheers, David.
