-----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. >
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