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

[DonJr]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:06 -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> --
> greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org

Just wait until it UNINSTALLS the "auto" installed kernel-package you
are currently running, because it doesn't think that package is
"required" anymore.
 {-: It will happily do that and has recommended such incorrect actions
in the past. :-}

Auto-handling of LIB-packages is nice and in most cases works as
expected, but Application and System{kernel} packages are a different
matter altogether.

-- 
 DonJr