Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 February 2018 05:23:56 Wookey wrote: > On 2018-02-03 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > greetings all; > > > > I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed > > on this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the > > g. > > Seems a lot, but X an

no gateway is set, was Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:37:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2018 21:04:40 Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its > > > interpretation of dependencies will leave you with an unbo

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Wookey
On 2018-02-03 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > greetings all; > > I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed on > this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the g. Seems a lot, but X and two desktops is a lot of stuff. Using --no-install-recommends i

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-04 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:27:11 Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. >> >> If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as roo

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 23:27:11 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. > > If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as root. > > > but my sudo password doesn't give me roo

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 21:04:40 Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its > > interpretation of dependencies will leave you with an unbootable, > > destroyed system. Its done that to me several times al

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > It turns that I am not supposed to be running aptitude as root. If you want it to make changes to the system you must run it as root. > but my sudo password doesn't give me root permissions > when its time to actually do something. That see

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 February 2018 11:46:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > greetings all; > > I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed on > this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the g. > There was a bare jessie image, a little under 3.5 GB on the sdcard at > that

Re: aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its interpretation of > dependencies will leave you with an unbootable, destroyed system. Its > done that to me several times already. I remove packages with aptitude all the time and have n

aptitude is blowing up again.

2018-02-03 Thread Gene Heskett
greetings all; I very carefully selected docs, x11, kde and xfce to be installed on this rock64. That was something over 2000 packages when I hit the g. There was a bare jessie image, a little under 3.5 GB on the sdcard at that point, around 20:00 last night. 32GB sdcard. aptitude just keeps