On 02 Dec 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Aptitude is very aggressive and usually wrong about removing other
> "unneeded" apps when you remove one app. Maybe this only happens
> when you start out using apt-get, but is nonetheless very
> aggravating and disconcerting. Thus, I stick with apt-get.
>
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:38:45AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/30/06 10:50, Ralph Katz wrote:
> > On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> [snip]
> > On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> >> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
> >> instead of aptitu
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On 11/30/06 10:50, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
[snip]
> On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
>> instead of aptitude.
>>
>> RLH
>
> Au cont
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:50:25AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> [BTW, this should be an FAQ: Package managers - what's the difference
> between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?]
>
> > Yes :-) Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself
On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
[BTW, this should be an FAQ: Package managers - what's the difference
between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?]
> Yes :-) Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself. Each tool
> has merits. Question is not "which is better" but "which
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:55:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/28/06 19:26, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> > If a package is in the Debian repository, and if it can't be installed
> > by using any one of the user-interface programs
Arlie Stephens wrote:
Hi Folks,
It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what
extent can one mix and match between them?
I notice some
John Hasler wrote:
s. keeling writes:
And the downside is, you might say:
apt-get remove $SOME_GNOME_PROGRAM
and it will also remove Gnome (if you let it); Ditto KDE.
Gnome and KDE are metapackage which have no contents. They exist only to
pull in all the real packages th
Micha Feigin writes:
> In terms of history first came dpkg, next dselect, then apt-get and then
> aptitude. Both apt-get and aptitude work with dpkg behind the scenes.
> synaptic (I think that there is also a kde version) is just a glorified
> GUI based aptitude AFAIK.
Aptitude, Apt-get, and Synap
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:13, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
> dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
> To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what
> extent can one m
s. keeling writes:
> And the downside is, you might say:
>apt-get remove $SOME_GNOME_PROGRAM
> and it will also remove Gnome (if you let it); Ditto KDE.
Gnome and KDE are metapackage which have no contents. They exist only to
pull in all the real packages they depend on. Once that is done
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
> > dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
>
> There is only one package manager in Debian: Dpkg. Apt is a
> dependency-resolving library that runs on top of Dpkg.
> It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
> dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
There is only one package manager in Debian: Dpkg. Apt is a
dependency-resolving library that runs on top of Dpkg. Apt-get, Aptitude,
and Synaptic are front-en
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On 11/28/06 19:26, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
>> dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synapt
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
> dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
> To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what
> extent c
Hi Folks,
It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what
extent can one mix and match between them?
I notice some confusion (someone else's
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