Re: Noob question - best way to install software
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Are those things a newbie cares about? I've never used them in the 8
> years I've been using debian.
Probably not! But if you want to compile debian packages from source then I
think you need those commands.
raju
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