about installing packages

[Derek Broughton]

J.Markoll wrote:

> Derek Broughton a écrit :
> | - why do people seem to love synaptic?

> I use alternately Synaptic and apt-get install, show, apt-cache,
> apt-search...
> People love Synaptic because it is very well done, offers plenty ways to
> get information about packages, is very configurable, even with colours
> very pratictal to see what package comes from what repository and so on,

Ah-hah.  That wasn't available the last time I used it seriously (quite some
time ago).  In itself, I think that's enough to make it worth installing. 
Right now I have some glitches on my system that, I think, might be caused
by accidentally installing some Debian packages (I pick up Mambo & Tomcat
from Debian, but my pinning wasn't always perfect).

> it is easyer to change/add some repository than within the
> /etc/apt/sources.list file, full with written lines (I think the
> commented information lines should be grouped and the repository lines
> should be better at the end), they love it because it is beautiful

LOL.

Thanks.  I think I'll give it another try.
-- 
derek