Re: Noob question - best way to install software

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

> Curious:  what does apt-get do that aptitude non-interactive do; how
> does the user's experience of each differ?  I thought that aptitude for
> simple stuff a drop-in replacement for apt-get.
> 

sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs
sudo apt-get source texmacs

Replace texmacs with your favorite package name. More info on what the
commands do can be read from the man page of apt-get. AFAIK, there are no
aptitude equivalents for the above commands.

hth
raju

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