28 Dec
2014
28 Dec
'14
10:21 a.m.
On Sunday 28 December 2014 08:22:08 Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 27 December 2014 8:58:38 pm you wrote:
Debian.
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dan Youngquist wrote:
Not sure what OS exegnu is based on... On 12/27/2014 06:30 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
found the 'man' on 'apt-mark' a bit obscure but this is a great tip so
I'll be exploring it.
everyone's referencing 'synaptic'; is it considered superior to
'kpackage'?
I prefer the 'apt-get'/'aptitude' in general but will use whatever
does the job effectively.
F. so here's an example. I do:
sudo apt-get remove korn-trinity
and I get a whole list of stuff to autoremove. I've included it after
my signature. some of this stuff I want to retain.
Using Synaptic, you'd select any you want to keep, go to the Package
menu, and uncheck "Automatically installed". Or if you prefer, you can
use apt-mark to mark them as manually installed (see man apt-mark). I use Debian, the cli tools, imho, are superior to any
gui app..some time
you need to repair a system without X getting involved.
Hear, hear.
I keep learning more about the cli, apt-mark is new to me, apt-cache has
lots of useful options...you can answer alot of your own questions with
these tools. The key s knowing what they are.
Agreed!
Lisi