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[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

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Roy Smith schreef:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:

*snip*

>>     Well, I have used aptitude 3 times now and it works just fine. I can 
>> see what is happening with aptitude and you don't using the GUI software.
>>
>>     Also I was having trouble with vlc loosing it's audio after a few 
>> hours. I fixed that with aptitude remove vlc, and then aptitude install 
>> vlc on this Hardy computer. It fixed the problem :-)
>>   
> 
> Sorry Karl, but I have to disagree with you.  You can see what is going
> on when you use Synaptic or the Add/Remove programs in the Applications
> menu.  In either program after you've selected the packages to install
> and click on the Apply button, you can click where it says "Show for
> individual files" and see it as each package is downloaded.  Then when
> it goes to install, just click where it says "Details" and it opens a
> window where you can see the installation progress.
> 
> Only thing is that there doesn't appear to be a way to make these
> windows open automatically by default.  Instead you have to open them
> every time you use Synaptic or Add/Remove programs.
> 


Sorry Roy, but I have to disagree partly with your disagreement. ;-)

When troubleshooting, it is easier to work with aptitude in a terminal.
When something goes wrong, you can just copy/paste the output to a mail
for this technical support mailing list (or to a pastebin).

It's not that I don't trust GUI tools, I just like scrolling terminals.



On a tangent: when I was still on Gentoo (you know, the "compile
everything from source" distro), I had the output of my compilations on
the background of my desktop, semi-transparant, in a sort of greenish,
Matrix-style font. Now *that* looked very cool! :-)

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Amedee


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