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[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Mar 26, Alan McKinnon did say:

> ...snip... 'apt' can be tricky, as it's a command 
> line tool. Instead you should be using Synaptic, which is basically 
> the gui version of the same thing.  ...snip...

I'm sorry to disagree. But I would have said "Synaptic" can be tricky as
it's a gui application... And then recommended the command line version
"apt-get".

Different strokes for different folks and all that, but as long as I can
make sense of "man Command-Name" (which I'll admit isn't always) I
usually find the command line tools much more predictable and hence LESS
tricky than their gui counterparts. Plus if I don't get the results I
expect, it's much easier to ask for help by posting the exact command
line I tried than by trying to describe each and every click I took with
a gui application.

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