about installing packages
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 2 20:34:01 UTC 2005
Rogelio Nodal wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>>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. :-(
>>
>>
> Have you tried sudo apt-get install package?
> Just a guess.
A bad one (that wasn't the question I asked). I grew beyond apt-get months
ago. Aptitude rules as a command line tool. What I'm asking is "what is
it about synaptic that makes anybody recommend it"? Apparently there
_isn't_ a good reason to use it, because every time I ask I get either no
answers or misdirections like this.
--
derek
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