Re: Help-nano Digest, Vol 178, Issue 4

For debian distros, i believe the correct command is 
"sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install nano"
My system says that i have 6.2 and that is the newest version







 

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Today's Topics:

  1. An Inconsistant Version Number? (Chime Hart)
  2. Re: An Inconsistant Version Number? (Chris Allegretta)
  3. Re: An Inconsistant Version Number? (Chime Hart)
  4. Re: An Inconsistant Version Number? (Chris Allegretta)
  5. Re: An Inconsistant Version Number? (Chime Hart)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:06:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Chime Hart <[email protected]>
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Subject: An Inconsistant Version Number?
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Hi All: I am in Debian SID, I update/upgrade almost every day. nano is now 7.2, 
however, when I run "nano" it still claims 5.8. I even tried 
removing-and-installing, same thing. Meanwhile my laptop has-and-says 7.2. Can 
some1 please inform how to fix this? I have nano aliased to nano -tzxk
Thanks so much in advance
Chime



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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:32:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Allegretta <[email protected]>
To: Chime Hart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An Inconsistant Version Number?
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Hello,

When you run 'which nano' or 'type nano', does it find the one in /usr/bin before any locally compiled versions or any aliases?

As you are on debian, 'dpkg -l nano' will show you what version the system thinks is installed.

HTH, chrisa

Jan 21, 2023 10:07:03 PM Chime Hart <[email protected]>:

> Hi All: I am in Debian SID, I update/upgrade almost every day. nano is now 7.2, however, when I run "nano" it still claims 5.8. I even tried removing-and-installing, same thing. Meanwhile my laptop has-and-says 7.2. Can some1 please inform how to fix this? I have nano aliased to nano -tzxk
> Thanks so much in advance
> Chime



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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:49:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Chime Hart <[email protected]>
To: Chris Allegretta <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An Inconsistant Version Number?
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Thanks Chris: Running your dpkg shows 7.2. which nano shows what its aliased 
to, Meanwhile just typing "nano" 5.8 new buffer. Now, I could try-and-unalias 
nano. OK, just did that, no change. O, by the way I am running tcsh if that 
makes any difference? Thanks in advance
Chime




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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:55:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Allegretta <[email protected]>
To: Chime Hart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An Inconsistant Version Number?
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Hmm, that's very unusual.

What if you just run /usr/bin/nano and see which version comes up?

If that does indeed show the 7.2 version, you can always try setting your alias like:

alias nano "/usr/bin/nano --args"
Then log out and back in again or reboot, tcsh is a bit of an odd duck to me on really getting your cshrc re-read.

HTH, chrisa

Jan 21, 2023 10:55:51 PM Chime Hart <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Chris: Running your dpkg shows 7.2. which nano shows what its aliased to, Meanwhile just typing "nano" 5.8 new buffer. Now, I could try-and-unalias nano. OK, just did that, no change. O, by the way I am running tcsh if that makes any difference? Thanks in advance
> Chime



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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 21:11:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Chime Hart <[email protected]>
To: Chris Allegretta <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An Inconsistant Version Number?
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Well, Chris, sure enough, running /usr/bin/nano gives a 7.2 version, so I will 
try-and-ajust an alias. I tried I think it was Victor's suggestion of 
downloading a source package, but among the .tar file, I didn't see a usual 
.configure. Anyway, fixing an alias should solve this-and-thank you again.
Chime




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