Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor
On 10/25/13, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 08:15 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:18 PM, John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Richard Owlett writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any reason that a Ubuntu version Mint would be any more
>>>>> suitable than a custom install of Debian
>>>>
>>>> No.
>>>
>>> Yes, ease of installation.
>>
>> pro Ubuntu, con Debian
>>
>> As mentioned before, *buntu repositories provide collections of
>> educational software that is sorted regarding to the age of the
>> children.
>
> Knowing that such a sorted collection exists is valuable information.
>
>> The same software likely is available for Debian too, but I
>> don't know if there are meta packages available too,
>
> I've been wanting to understand meta-packages for a personal
> project. Gives me one more assignment. If retirement isn't for
> learning and expanding horizons, what good is it ;/
Recommended!
I found it easy, that was ~8 years ago, probably easier now.
Look at package equivs, followed by:
# Quick and dirty local packages repo: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null |
gzip - > Packages.gz
Good luck
Zenaan
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