Ubuntu installers?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Colin Watson wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> Colin Watson wrote:
>> >Little Girl wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> 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.

If you say so. Nevertheless, you were referring to tools as formats,
which, ironically, is a great example of the confusion the OP was
talking about.

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Little Girl

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