sudo apt get
gets over 100 different “gets” for firefox-esr and fails due to network timeouts
trying to retry loading missing files.
How can I configure sudo apt get to download only the firefoxes for just
english,swedish,french,spanish,
TIA
BTW, The pointer cursor often takes a few seconds to appear after
Super-Tab to switch from firefox-esr to terminal and also switching back again.
Is that from a screen-keyboart pointer attack mitigation fix? Maybe using some
lock transaction that schedules non-realtime polling or such to continue?
Or a driver issue?
Anyone else seeing slow pointers?
This answer from Ask Ubuntu is probably what you want:
If you do not want to install recomended packages:
for apt-get use --no-install-recommends and --no-install-suggests
for aptitude use --without-recommends or -R
You can also manually exclude every firefox-esr localization package (i.e. fierfox-esr-l10n-*) you don’t need with aptitude text UI. (I always do it like that to save some space of filesystem.)
Also, it is not downloading multiple Firefoxes. Firefox is actually split into multiple packages which depend on each other, so you can install it with or without any subset of localizations.
Network issues
I frequently see Wi-Fi silently hanging up on my Librem 5 when downloading something large. Reconnecting helps.
In your case apt/apt-get/aptitude keep downloaded package files cached. So, if it actually downloads something before hanging up, then you can restart it and it would not require to download anything twice.
Thanks for your helpful reply
I realize the localizations are not whole firefox apps
With some RTFM I should be able to narrow down the localizations like you.
PS. I seem to remember seeing some problem with doing more than one apt-get and upgrade
without restarting inbetween. Is that still a problem?
I have been avoiding a reboot for a long time now (partly for fear of triggering an OEM-reset that I think I may have mis-clicked in desperation after killing what I thought was a hard hang, but was probably an uninterruptible sync that I
didn’t realize would need hours to complete)
It rebooted ok, but no sign of the blob, and
some edits to some scripts had apparently also disappeared along with the unsynced blob. So I thought (IIRC ;-/ ) – well I had most things backed up, maybe get a clean start.
So the above may be considered a UX bug
and a plea for some kind of progress indicator for uninterruptable syncing.
Wayland access to hardware display buffers and udevd should make it easy
to provide a Keyboad Shortcut to show status, IWT.
Tanks again.
