VM is done downloading all those packages, installing them... should only be a few more minutes until I can see if this works on the freshly-installed jessie vm
@UzumakiDev if you scroll through that, is it entirely suggestions to keep currently-uninstalled packages "at their current version" (i.e., none = uninstalled)?
@UzumakiDev Normally it'd be from using aptitude, and quitting it before actually installing/removing packages... But I think it and apt-get install share an intended action database nowadays, so it could be from apt-get oo
also when I upgraded I had GUI problem because the upgrade activated my neouvau driver which made my nvidia driver freak out so had to uninstall and install the debian way
OK, so it appears it's going to install fine on the VM. That's good, we're troubleshooting a problem that's actually on your machine—it's not Debian being broken.
@UzumakiDev is aptitude downloading/installing stuff now?
@UzumakiDev apt-get update and pressing u in aptitude do the same thing, by the way
@UzumakiDev OK, if you're back on the main screen, press / (forward slash), should bring up a search box. Put in ^steam$ to find it. You can stop typing the moment it comes up.
pressing enter should close the search box. Press + on steam to tell aptitude to install it
50-50 you'll get a red bar at the bottom, if so, go ahead and press e
@FaheemMitha I vaguely recall that apt-get tries to use aptitude's memory, at least. I think I ran into that once before. So it's possible clearing those pending actions has fixed it. Possible...
@FaheemMitha I'm on a business account with static IPs for around $130/mo... You can get the same speed with a dynamic IP for less, something like $40 or $50
You could always try engaging the hellhound in a discussion about philosophy. Or get the hellhound and the not-quite-crazy-cat-person in an argument about linguistics.
@FaheemMitha Cerberus and rumtscho aren't American.
Well, Cerberus is the three-headed hellhound, currently residing in the Netherlands. SAJ is the not quite crazy cat person. I think he's currently short two cats to be a crazy cat person.
because its dependency resolver works way too hard (as we say it start to do on the steam install)... mainly, I think it searches the wrong paths first
I've heard the problem its trying to solve is NP-complete.
And, well, apt-get's simple but not as perfect solution is much faster... and usually works well enough. At least if you are willing to do a few manual hints
I am writing a "unit test" for a bunch of .tex files and want to check for incorrect entity names, e.g. "Data Items" instead of "DataItems".
Currently, I use grep to search for the incorrect versions:
grep -i "Data items" *.tex
however, the list is pretty large, also there are false positives...
my guess is that the answer to that question is going to have to be TeX-specific, since its very hard to store metadata about particular words in arbitrary text files...
I am writing a "unit test" for a bunch of .tex files and want to check for incorrect entity names, e.g. "Data Items" instead of "DataItems".
Currently, I use grep to search for the incorrect versions:
grep -i "Data items" *.tex
however, the list is pretty large, also there are false positives...
