Hi their. Aptitude is indeed a much better tool than apt-get. While I'm at it, one very useful apt-get/aptitude plugin is apt-listbugs and I think apt-listchanges. I have them both installed on a couple of machines here, and they are wonderful. Apt-listbugs will query the Debian BTS and will let you know what bugs are pending before you do an upgrade. The interface also has a command-line which will let you input bug numbers, and it will display information about the bugs, with the option to render the complete bug reports in either Links or Lynx. Apt-listchanges will consolidate all the changelogs from packages that are going to be upgraded into a nice little screen, and will also offer to display the news that has changed, if it in fact has. It even offers to keep track of already viewed changelog entries and news entries. Just my two sense. --Erik On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:38:37 -0400 > From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at ftml.net> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Subject: Re: Mlbviewer > > Cheryl, > > Were you using apt-get, or aptitude? I have found that aptitude is a > much smarter tool than apt-get, and gives you much more information > about what will be happening during an upgrade so you can cancel if it > appears you might lose an important application if you proceed. In > those cases, I would just say no thanks, not today thanks, and usually > in a day or two the situation is once again safe to proceed. apt-get is > not nearly as careful as aptitude in that respect. > > Chuck > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:25:20AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > No, mplayer isn't being dropped. There was some kind of conflict because > > when libavformat upgraded mplayer got removed. It's been fixed now but > > for a time I had to downgrade libavformat to get mplayer back. > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheryl > > > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (51% of Full) > > My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net > See also: www.wedit2.ml1.net > -------- > Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > eheil at sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
