Bulkley wrote:Good stuff. Synaptic has its uses but also its limitations. It is about control. You need to be able to control your system which is much easier with a terminal.
I chose Synaptic this time for several reasons.
(1) Experiment. I'll post how it works.
(2) I have a compromised wifii. It is shared, it is not fast, and it times me out randomly -- for 20 minutes to 3 hours.
So I spent a night and an evening watching a movie series and tending to it when I wanted a break. I moved all the package files from
/var/cache/apt/archives to a place in my data partition. Someday when I am feeling sufficiently rested and have a space of time I will move it back, update it, and install.