[ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote:
>I saw software installers mentioned somewhere too... so far the only 
>reliable software installer I have tried is synaptic. the two big
>failures of other setups are:
>  - not passing package option questions to the user (jackd asks
> reatime or not for example)
>  - not informing the user when an install will remove already
> installed packages.

The command line tool "apt" becomes better and better. For the averaged
user it already could replace a lot of the complicated "apt-foo" and
"dpkg" commands, unfortunately it suffers from a bad documentation.

When I recommended to use apt isntead of gdebi a while ago, even an
Ubuntu developer using apt was surprised.

Using command line isn't rocket science and apt soon or later will be
perfect for everybody.

I'm using apt with scripts and never encountered an issue regarding
functionality, sometimes it's just hard to get rid of redundant output ;).

[root at archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt list -a linux-lowlatency | grep installed

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

linux-lowlatency/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 4.4.0.116.122 amd64 [installed]
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt list -a -qq linux-lowlatency | grep installed 2>/dev/null 

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

linux-lowlatency/xenial-updates,xenial-security,now 4.4.0.116.122 amd64 [installed]
[root at moonstudio ~]# logout
[root at archlinux rocketmouse]#

:D