Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-29 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > On 29/08/15 01:37, Isaac Dunham wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > >>I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. > >>It all works with just a bit of weirdness. > >>I use apt-get

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-29 Thread Dave Turner
Isaac, ncurses-term and ncurses-base are installed. the output of env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE is TERM=xterm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal my laptop is now only running xfce4, and slim is gone because I prefer to login into a terminal and then startx

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-29 Thread Dave Turner
back for various reasons. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:45:51 +0100 From: Dave Turner To:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude Message-ID:<55e011af.6050...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flow

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. > It all works with just a bit of weirdness. > I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those > upgrades that get held back for various reasons. >

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
characters when using 'examine' in aptitude Message-ID:<55e011af.6050...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get u

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Dave Turner
console-data was not installed so I installed it. Configured it. No difference. Rebooted. No difference. Rummaged around the interweb found assorted files to look at, reconfigured locale, had another go at configuring the keyboard. Rebooted. No difference! Anyway, thanks for the suggestion Aito

[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread aitor_czr
Try with: # dpkg-reconfigure console-data Aitor. On 28/08/15 13:21, Dave Turner wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held ba

[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Dave Turner
I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to