Ubuntu installers?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:55:48AM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:
> >> Liam Proven wrote:
> >>>There's APT and there's Snap. That's it.
> >> 
> >> You might want to add dpkg as a third item on that list.
> >
> >That's not a different format from apt.  apt calls dpkg.
> 
> Your two statements conflict with one another since apt wouldn't need
> to call dpkg if they were the same.

Not at all.  "Format" describes the kinds of packages that you feed into
the system - that is, .debs.  apt and dpkg are certainly different
*tools* that operate at somewhat different levels of abstraction, but
they handle the same *format* of packages.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]