Re: [Hampshire] Debian, I installed the wrong bit

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: Philip Stubbs
CC: Hants LUG
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian, I installed the wrong bit
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 at 10:41:40AM +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > > You can use aptitude to remove packages and there is a sort
> > > of 'graphical interface' you can use which so far as I know doesn't
> > > need X. The interface isn't as user friendly as synaptic* but is a lot
> > > friendlier than dpkg.
> >
> > Ditto, the command line interface is easy enough, the ncurses text user
> > interface (TUI) is a bit unfriednly..
>
> It is still a huge improvement on dselect.


.... Annoyingly you still get dselect on an Etch system.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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