From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp4.knology.net ([24.214.63.227]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Apt1G-0000D7-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 12:46:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 21231 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2004 17:46:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (69.1.42.5) by smtp4.knology.net with SMTP; 8 Feb 2004 17:46:54 -0000 Received: from kenny by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Apt1u-00063q-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:47:38 -0600 Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:47:38 -0600 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040208174738.GA23239@blackbox> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20040208161352.GI27090@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Kenny Hitt Subject: Re: Debian Packages Question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:46:59 -0000 Hi. Forget is used to "forget new packages". If you run stable, it isn't useful for much. On an unstable system, packages added to Debian since the last time you did an apt-get update or an aptitude update show up in a new packages group. I always make sure to read the screen before I confirm I really want aptitude to continue installing or removing packages. It sometimes does unexpected things. When it decides to remove something important, just schrole down to the package name and change it back with + or - before I let aptitude continue. Also, the leter g is a shortcut for install/remove. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:38:00AM -0700, Scott Berry wrote: > Here is what I do Janina. I use a program called Aptitude. In this app > you can actually go under installed applications and then pick the > particular subcategory like docs electronics or games and then you > choose the one you want to remove if you like. the way to remove the > package is to highlight the name of the package with the cursor and then > hit the dash key on the top of the keyboard and this tells Aptitude to > remove the package. Then when you are actually ready to do the true > remove just hit the f10 key and enter on install/uninstall which is the > top object. Then you must hit f10 one more time I think this is a > security feature so you don't actually remove something you don't want > to remove. There is also a f for forget package but haven't > successfully gotten this to work when removing packages. What this does > is simply delete the package from the list as long as it is highlighted > I believe. I haven't read much of the docs on this it was pretty simple > to get going so I have been a touch lazzy about reading the docs.On Sun, 8 > Feb 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > How do I get a list of all the packages currently installed on a Debian > > system? I only want to see what's actually installed at a given moment. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka > > Email: janina@rednote.net > > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 > > > > Director, Technology Research and Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > http://www.afb.org > > > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > > Free Standards Group > > http://a11y.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup