--- On Sun, 12/20/09, S. Fishpaste
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> From: S. Fishpaste
> Subject: Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 3:30 PM
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600,
> sys49...@hushmail.com
> in gm
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600, sys49...@hushmail.com in
gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
> software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
> finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so.
On Friday 18 December 2009 04:39:49 Nick Boyce wrote:
> That's good to know. Now maybe I can remove the wrapper script for
> apt-get that I put on some of our Debian boxes at work for the benefit
> of other sysadmins who were accustomed to using apt-get, which simply
> displays "You probably want
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:22:13PM EST, Allen Kenner wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:59:28 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:12:31PM EST, Allen Kenner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:01:06 -0500, wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> I also use FVWM, FVWM2, and FVWM95, and one other
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:59:28 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:12:31PM EST, Allen Kenner wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:01:06 -0500, wrote:
[..]
I also use FVWM, FVWM2, and FVWM95, and one other I can't remember the
name of, called FVWM something or other, which looks re
In , Mathieu
Malaterre wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Celejar wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
>> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
>>> sys49...@hushmail.com dijo:
>>> >For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
>>> >software
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4b29bdbe.2090...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>, Nick Boyce wrote:
>
>> The main advantage of aptitude over apt-get (IMO) used to be (sarge/etch
>> IIRC) that aptitude added extra info into the apt database flagging
>> packages that were only installed as a dependency of
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
>> sys49...@hushmail.com dijo:
>
> ...
>
>> >For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
>> >software install tool that doesn't
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:12:31PM EST, Allen Kenner wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:01:06 -0500, wrote:
[..]
> I also use FVWM, FVWM2, and FVWM95, and one other I can't remember the
> name of, called FVWM something or other, which looks really nice.
fvwm-crystal
CJ
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:14:21PM EST, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> sys49...@hushmail.com:
> > I do wish the font management was more simplified and structured
> > though, but I guess we can't have everything.
> Thanks to fontconfig, I do find it rather simplified and structured.
> Just put your new
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:01:06 -0500, wrote:
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Thanks for the aptitude tips. I installed the docs package and the
HTML is
right where you all was said to be. :)
Love debian for we are allowed to install a more simplified system.
I can
even pretend I
sys49...@hushmail.com:
> I do wish the font management was more simplified and structured
> though, but I guess we can't have everything.
Thanks to fontconfig, I do find it rather simplified and structured.
Just put your new fonts into ~/.fonts (locally)
or /usr/local/share/fonts (system wide) and
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Thanks for the aptitude tips. I installed the docs package and the
HTML is
right where you all was said to be. :)
Love debian for we are allowed to install a more simplified system.
I can
even pretend I am an early 1990s grad student and use fvwm if
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:45:29AM EST, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
[..]
> I still prefer aptitude because I make use of the interactive
> resolver. When running a mixed system like mine, it can be a great
> aid. IMO, the aptitude interactive resolver is much better than the
> similar offerin
In <4b29bdbe.2090...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>, Nick Boyce wrote:
>Joey Hess wrote:
>> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using
>>> aptitude. I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new
>>> stuff. After a graduate degree my br
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote:
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> "It is important to understand that the higher level package management
> tools such as |aptitude| or |dselect| rely on |apt| which, itself,
> relies on |dpkg| to manage the packages in the system."
>
> As referd by Cellejar lookin on:
>
>
Joey Hess wrote:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using
>> aptitude.
>> I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After a
>> graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll have to delete
>>
Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
sys49...@hushmail.com dijo:
...
For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
findin
sys49...@hushmail.com wrote:
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I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other
comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names.
apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't
handle dependencies as well, leaving m
Aptitude is well worth taking the time to get to know, both in command
line and in full-screen mode. For the User Manual, install
aptitude-doc-en. The html manual will then be in
/usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en.
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I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other
comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names.
apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't
handle dependencies as well, leaving me to install software by hand
wit
On 14 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using
> > aptitude.
> > I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After
> > a
> > graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using
> aptitude.
> I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After a
> graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll have to delete
> some of the old stuff. Bah.
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
> sys49...@hushmail.com dijo:
...
> >For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
> >software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
> >finding it increasingly pr
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
sys49...@hushmail.com dijo:
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>Hi,
>
>For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
>software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
>finding it increasingly problematic over the p
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Hi,
For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been
finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so. I am
beginning to suspect that apt-get is becoming aged
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