Problem installing 19.10

[Bret Busby]

On 22/10/2019, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:53, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> ...
>> On one computer, in trying to get some useful applications installed,
>> the Software Buttocks would install two or three programs out of the
>> selection queued for installation, then shut the computer down. After
>> this happened a few times, I managed to get synaptic installed, and
>> that installed all the packages that I sought, without any problems.
>
> I have had no such problems using apt.
>

An advantage to using synaptic, is that, in searching for an
application, or, a type of application, is that synaptic lists what is
available; for example, in seeking web browsers, it lists the ones
that are available (even if the version of netsurf that is available
for 19.10, loads, then, when going to a URL, goes into hiding), and,
where available, associated debug and documentation packages, both of
which, are becoming increasingly necessary.

That allows for trying extra packages; for example, instead of
sticking with gnucash, trying also kmymoney, grisby, skrooge, etc.

And, with text editors, whilst my favourite is gedit (although, I use
vi for editing system files), there are kwrite, and, others, to also
try.

So, I prefer synaptic, unless I am restricted in what I am doing,
which is where I think apt is more applicable.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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