I'm having some issues with aptitude. I'm attempting to install all the fonts available in the debian repos, but apt-get doesn't seem to like the command apt-get install ttf*
(its conflict resolver can't cope), and I've never been able to get regex expressions and wildcards to work in aptitude. I tried the alternative
aptitude search ttf | awk '{print $2}' | xargs aptitude install
After running the resolver, it proposes a solution with the standard Accept this solution? [y/n/q/?]
, but automatically aborts before I have the chance to select an option. I've tried it on 4 different computers, all running the latest version of debian testing, and they all behave exactly the same.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I can install them one at a time, but I'm sure there are richer things in life...
aptitude
is reading they/n/q
response from its input pipe, which has been emptied byxargs
. Try... aptitude -y install
to pre-answer the prompt. Or use... echo xargs aptitude install
, then copy/paste the output (adding quotes if necessary).