[Novalug] best way to back up a home partition.

[gregory pryzby]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:50PM -0400, DonJr wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 11:28 -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:23:35AM -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> > > 
> > > this resulted in loosing the ability to start up x - when you try startx 
> > > you get the error:
> > > 
> > > xinit connection refused (error111)
> > > 
> 
> I{and/or the list} would need a lot more information to be of any real
> help at all.
>  But check the permissions of /tmp and that /dev is properly set up.
> 
> > > trying to get alien to install resulted in a report that the dependencies 
> > > were broken - apt-get was not able to get rpm which is needed for alien to 
> > > work.
> > 
> > aptitude is 'better' for ubuntu and what is recommend iirc. 
> >  
> 
> Gregory,
>   Please explain why you think aptitude is 'better'?
> 
>   Or what feature does aptitude have that apt-get doesn't have that
> might solve this problem?
> 
> I personally don't care for aptitude because of how the "auto-uninstall
> unused packages" feature was shoehorned in with no way {that I know of}
> to simply and completely disable it.
>   Note Aptitude's "auto-package" feature {and database/record ?} isn't
> an APT-interface supplied/handled feature.

all ubunutu docs I have read point to this and recommend it over
apt-get. 

I blindly follow along and don't ask. I like that it removes stuff
that is no longer needed. 

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