Keep-Recommends=true" and see

you may want to mention it now

jelly-home: apt-get behaves itself now
jelly-home: err… apt-get behaves itself

yah, aptitude sux

that works too.

if I use it exclusively, it usually behaves better than apt-get, but sometimes it's just dumb

not dumb .. too smart for its own good

no, dumb. it also behaves differently in command line and ui.

i don't use the UI .. wouldn't know

jelly-home: this was a freshly installed etch box and I was careful to only ever use aptitude on it…

now with sid's apt-get this shouldn't be a problem anymore

i'm tring to install a pp printer on a print server, but i can't choose parallel port during the web installation. why?

you think? my problem was that I was trying to turn off auto-installing-recommends

I think there was a case, when you started the ui, things would get fixed magically with command line after that

was mentionaing the other problem where you mix both apt-get and aptitude

this can't be good …

ok, I understand

hm, if you haven't used apt at all, check in BTS for similar issues.

this was probably because aptitude treated the -R as a global flag, so all packages installed as recommends were removed (at least i think so)

oh yes, -R _is_ global. And I think the flag is remembered after you use it once
not really intuitive

there is a very old bts bug about this. but seems to be fixed too here in sid's version

yeah, I figured that must be the case given your -o test
ui vs cli usage: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299009#10

When Itry to mount my othe partition than it gives me its already mounted or its busy

!dbugs 143532

3

!win hark

Congratulations, hark! You have won a one way ticket to Baghdad!

heh, a new one

that's a fairly old bug

!literal win

"win" is "lose."

other partition ?

yep… aptitude has a lot of fairly old bugs Bit of a worry for debian's new "preferred package mangement frontend"

you can't what ?

hey, at least it's NEW crap!

abrotman I have two disk one is at /dev/sda and other is on /dev/sdb

if it makes you feel better .. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=dpkg

I am try to mount /dev/sdb1 partition

i thought your system was read-only

it doesn't…

how to change that readonly

liable told you

abrotman i can choose parallel port in the web installation
*i can't

web installation ?
for cups ?

abrotman yes. cups web server, port 631

liable doesnt told me?

abrotman, localhost port 631

is the printer port kernel module loaded

abrotman localhost:~# lsmod |grep lp

you need to fix the reason why its ro first

lp 10948 0
parport 32200 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
bparport 32200 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc/b