<div>On 08/02/07, Joe Hart <<a href="mailto:j.hart@orange.nl">j.hart@orange.nl</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> James Heaver wrote: </blockquote><div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> > Does this have any impact on what GUI I should be using? > 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. > 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. 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.</blockquote><div> 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. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 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. <a href="http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php">http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php</a> 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.</blockquote> <div> That looks like a useful site, thanks for the tip. James </div> </div>