Re: [Hampshire] Aptitude

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Aptitude
On Mon, Nov 5, 2007 at 12:43:26 +0000 (+0000), Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:18:01PM +0000, John Lewis wrote:
> > He evens says never upgrade from within X window and that an
> > upgrade should only be done from a text console, logging in as root
> > and going to init 3 before attempting to upgrade.


The only problem I've had is when gpm was used in repeater mode - if
you were doing a big upgrade gpm stopped near the start (which killed
of the mouse) and was only restarted near the end (mouse would then
work again).

Adrian
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