Using apt-get [Was:Re: tool used to download packages?]

[James Heaver]

On 08/02/07, Joe Hart <j.hart at orange.nl> wrote:
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> James Heaver wrote:
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> > Does this have any impact on what GUI I should be using?
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> I am not exactly sure about the GUI apps, because I use the command line
> all the time.  I do search with adept and synaptic, but usually don't
> use them to install.
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> > I'm new (6 months or so) to using linux and have been ubuntu the whole
> > time and I'd completely missed this so far.  Any guides on the internet
> > I've seen for installing specific programs give apt-get commands.
> >
> > If its recommended that people use aptitude instead then perhaps
> > something needs to change in the documentation.
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> You're right.  It's in the Debian Reference, which was written BEFORE
> Sarge was stable, which means it's rather old by linux standards, Debian
> recommends using it, and since Ubuntu is based on debian, it makes
> sense.  BTW, Debian's recommended way before aptitude was dselect.
> apt-get is a very old tool that is supplied only because people got used
> to using it and one thing you can be assured about Debian is that they
> don't remove commands that people use.  If any distribution strives for
> backward compatibility it is Debian.



Thats one problem that there seems to be with linux - the documentation.
Quite often its poor, but even when there is good documentation it can be
quite fragmented and difficult to find.  (One guide here, a manual there, a
guide for something else somewhere else, the odd FAQ etc etc).

I've yet to get the hang on linux documentation really.

> Of course it could just be the case that I'm being selectively stupid
> > and should have noticed this.
> Like you said, it should be better written in the documentation.
>
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php is full of useful tips.  One
> that I really liked was how to get Konqueror to be the default file
> manager in Gnome.  I don't really like gnome, but it's a lot easier to
> deal with if Nautilus gets replaced with Konqueror.



That looks like a useful site, thanks for the tip.



James
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