about installing packages

Brian Walker bfwalker at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 04:37:41 UTC 2005


Greetings!

On 8/2/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
> Brian Walker wrote:
> 
> > On 7/29/05, Pushparaj Shetty <prajshetty at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> dear sir/ madam,
> >> I am user of ubuntu 5.04. I need to work with packages like latex and
> >> xfig and xdvi.
> >> Kindly provide me the instructions to download these packages.
> >>
> > As an experienced user you will, of course, have tried synaptic?
> >
> Ack! Why? I've tried asking a number of people about this, but _why_
> synaptic? What does it provide that I would find I couldn't live without?
> I realize this is a predominantly Gnome-user list, so maybe you don't have
> other GUI options, but for the full GUI KPackage seems much more useful 
> and
> for anything else it's aptitude. When I first tried synaptic, it had the
> virtue of being really fast. Then they added more features until it got to
> be as slow as kpackage. :-(
> --
> derek
> 
> Basically it is "horses for courses" - I used to avoid synaptic, but got 
into dependency troubles with good-old apt-get install and non-standard 
software installations. Aptitude is whatI generally use though. The OP 
seemed to be asking a newbie question, and for him I think synaptic is 
probably better. 

Brian
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