On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:39:22 Tony Wolfs wrote:
On 12/28/2014 04:01 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Greg Madden wrote:
On Saturday 27 December 2014 8:58:38 pm you wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 12/27/2014 06:30 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
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).
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.
Not sure what OS exegnu is based on...
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.
I don't like clicking around on a gui either. for one thing, I find scrolling around clumsy and it all seems kind of unnecessarily indirect: if I know the words, why use pictures?
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.
indeed. one has to know the words (= commands).
having an 'interesting' time with this upgrade though....
F.
if I know the words, why use pictures?
........if I know the pictures, why use words ? grin grin
Why do GUI users always feel the need to brow-beat, cajole or otherwise push everyone into using the GUI? ;-) Each to his own!
Lisi