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Re: Source of Debian wisdom



On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:22 -0800
Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:

[snip]

> > I only use apt-get when I need to install from the source (which aptitude 
> > cannot do).
> 
> I wonder why that is; the source packages are independent of binary ones.

As raju and others have pointed out on the list, aptitude apparently
has no equivalent to apt-get's 'source' and 'build-dep' commands.

[snip]

> Ken
> 
> -- 
> Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu

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