Re: Noob question - best way to install software
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:13:07AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
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> >On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 05:50:26PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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> >>On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:40PM -0700, Adam Frank wrote:
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> >>>For beginners I'd definitely recommend apt-get, or even one of its
> >>>GUI fronteds like Synaptic.
> >>>
> >>The only problem for a beginner using Synaptic is that if it is all
> >>she knows, and X crashes, they have no experience to fall back on.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I completely agree. Everyone should have some command line experience
> >in case anything ever breaks X.org, it could save lots of data and
> >time.
> >
> >I recommend aptitude for the new user, apt-get doesn't track
> >dependencies as well as aptitude does, and you don't have to remember
> >seperate commands (apt-* as opposed to aptitude)
> >
> I have one recurring problem with aptitude. It keeps trying to remove
> gnome and everything related to it and a bunch of other stuff.
> Fortunately it takes up enough real estate on the screen that it is
> hard to miss and I just reply N and use apt for that task.
>
Just so you know you responded to me personally, and not to the mailing
list. I'll CC it, hopefully it works (I'm not sure if it will break the
thread)
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