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Sometimes apt-get manages to install stuff that synaptic will fail or refuse to

Posted 07-09-2023 at 05:56 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
I'm not sure it's some configuration I have on synaptic (maybe having the stable-security as the prioritary release? I'm not sure it's set as such, though), or some inherent difference between both (I used to think it was just a GUI frontend to apt-get that would do pretty much exactly the same, once you click to "apply" at least, but it may not be the case), but in some cases synaptic will fail to install some packages, and not really give an explanation why. But the very same package...
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Things not to do in Linux Part 1

Posted 04-12-2010 at 11:07 AM by spampig
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I'm very tired and grumpy today having had no sleep at all. Last night I committed a cardinal sin closely related to the 'rm -Rf *' type of 'accidents'.

A fight had broken out between me and 'Fontmatrix'. Don't get me wrong, I love the program but when it's trying to read a usb drive with 10,000+ fonts on it, it takes me back to my younger days when all I had for company was a 386 running Win 3.11 on a double-spaced drive.

There was only the 'same' version in the repo's,...
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