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Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic

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On 08/02/2018 10:24 AM, bw wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
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>> For the first time I did a system upgrade against the online repository.
>> In the past, due to local conditions, my upgrades were by doing a fresh
>> install from purchased  DVD sets of latest point release.
>>
>> I was greeted by list of locales to added or upgraded. Not seeing any possible
>> harm I allowed it. I then got a screen asking to accept my current locale. If
>> it already knew my locale, why didn't just initially ask if I wanted my
>> current locale updated?
>>
>> I was then greeted with choices to update several subsystems. I rather blindly
>> accepted the recommendations. The explanations display seemed safe - would
>> they be of use or just add bloat?
>>
>> I found Synaptic's Help - un-helpful (didn't give enough info on what was
>> happening). Is there a web page aimed at a beginner/intermediate user to
>> understand what is happening?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?  https://wiki.debian.org/Synaptic
> says synaptic is "targeted at ease of use" so maybe that is why it
> does not have the helpful additional info you are looking for?

I suspected as much. I have a strange collection of background. I was 
introduced to programming with CORC/CUPL at Cornell in the early 60's. 
Dartmouth's BASIC later filled that market niche. In the 70's did some 
database management in dBaseII under close supervision. Later I did 
maintenance of 8085 assembler. I was never involved at the OS level 
until using Debian Squeeze.

> 
> On the other hand, each pkg can include scripts that run before or after
> installation.  That may be why you were asked a question.  I think there
> may be several ways to do it, but debconf https://wiki.debian.org/debconf
> is probably the way it is handled for most pkgs?
> 
> Every pkg has a changelog, a debian changelog, sometime a NEWS.debian, and
> usually one or two readme files at /usr/share/doc/<pkgname> so maybe
> looking up the readme for pkg locales will answer one of the questions.
> 
> good wiki here also https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement
> 

Next time I'll use command line tools. Looking up the man pages will 
help in deciding what path I wish to follow. Also, I suspect any 
questions will be at a more fine grained level.

I have bookmarked your links.

Thank you.

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Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-02 15:10 +0200
  Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-08-02 17:30 +0200
    Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-02 19:40 +0200
  Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-02 17:30 +0200
    Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-02 19:40 +0200
  Re: Surprises during upgrade using Synaptic Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-02 21:30 +0200

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