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

[Megan Larko]

DonJr wrote:

Hello List,

I use kUbuntu and Adept GUI for package updates.  (I use package up 
dater or PUP on my CentOS 5 box, fyi.)

I still use command line apt-cache, apt-get, and friends to install 
packages.  The Adept GUI seems to get the information from  my 
apt-whatever commands and find patches updates when needed.

All of that said, is the command line and GUI tool a bad idea to mix?

megan

> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:50 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>> DonJr wrote:
>>> 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. :-}
>>>   
>> I wouldn't know, but I've heard that if you use aptitude from the 
>> beginning to manage all the packages things like that don't happen.
>>
>> Angelo
> 
> Sounds like that might work in theory, but not even the Ubuntu-installer
> uses aptitude to do the base install.
> 
> In all versions of Ubuntu to date that I've installed there are a few
> packages that have caused me problems because of there OVER-stated
> requirements and when you uninstall them {or Ubuntu decides one need
> updating} and later on update the kernel-package Aptitude get into the
> cycle of wanting to uninstall any kernel package that isn't currently
> required by something, because if aptitude didn't install something it
> defaults to assuming that the package was an AUTO-install [*1].
>  The packages are 'ubuntu-minimal' and 'ubuntu-standard' these packages
> descriptions even say:
> 
> | It is safe to remove this package if some of the minimal system
> | packages are not desired. 
> 
> My Desktop and Servers don't need 'Wireless', 'pppoe', or 'pppconf'
> support, they are connect by Network-cards and cables to a central
> hub/router. There are also a number of other packages that these
> packages require that are not nessesarily part of a minimal functioning
> system IMHO.
> 
> [*1] Funny thing neither apt-get or synaptic have this problem.
> I can switch back and forth between them and dpkg without any problems.
>