[Linux-disciples] dvd partial burning

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:13:25PM -0500, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> > If you use aptitude consistently, there's a log in /var/log/aptitude.
> > If you ask changefiles to be mailed to you, that provides some sort of
> > log.  Otherwise I'm not sure how to find out, although it is possible
> > to look at historical packages in the Debian unstable archives
> > (although I forget where).
> I usually use command line apt-get update/upgrade. Should probably
> switch, no? This is one of the big things I need a tutorial on. I assume
> there's no other way to track changes in upgrades?

I think consistently using aptitude is the most reliable way.

It's easy.  Just type 'aptitude' and you get an interface which you
should be able to figure out with a little fiddling.  If you do it as
a regular (non-root) user, it won't do any actual changes without
asking you for a password, so it's pretty safe.

You can also use it as a command line tool with essentially the same
options as apt-get.  Just replace 'apt-get' by 'aptitude'.

> > > I'm using version 2.01a25-inofficial-iconv 
> > Have you tried the version in unstable?
> Good idea. I have this in my sources.list
> deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
> but it doesn't allow me to get the unstable version after updating.
> What's the apt-source I should have?

You must have some other source in your sources.list which has the
later version which you have installed; try
   aptitude install mkisofs/unstable

Peace,
	Dylan
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