Re: Noob question - best way to install software
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.
Doug.
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