Michael Pobega wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:13:07AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:Michael Pobega wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 05:50:26PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:40PM -0700, Adam Frank wrote: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.
run "aptitude keep-all" That will keep aptitude from trying to get rid of it sees as your "unused" packages, plus all their dependencies.
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)- -- <o) Debian GNU/Linux - Free as in Freedom/\\ http://digital-haze.net/~pobega/ - My Debian site and blog _\_V Window Maker user, Debian enthusiast, Mutt lover -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGIhyn/o7Q/FCvPe0RAhsjAJ9P5Loc9bCO0ssMFQ3NNFesRDTdrgCeJnsG GvXaeSiBpGk9KMAmMJzzJLU= =Fup+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----