apt-get newbie questions

[Art Alexion]

On Friday 09 March 2007 05:15, Jonathan Zeppettini wrote:
> Phil is right you can configure all your repos from within Adept as
> well as use it to search for packages and install them. It's basically
> just a GUI frontend for APT and unless you really prefer using the
> command line you might want to give it a try. It makes package
> management very painless...

If you like GUI, try synaptic.  It is gnome, but I think the interface and 
speed are far superior to adept.

If you are comfortable using the command line, I find that apt-get is much, 
much, much faster than adept.

I use the gui (synaptic) for searches, and apt-get for actual management .
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