James Miller wrote: > [...] > You were *not*, I repeat *NOT* using apt-get. apt-get does dependency > resolution and always installs, if anything, more than you need to run any > given program.
I second James here. Getting apt set up initially *can* be annoying (sometimes -- depends on what the 'localest' repository is) but ONCE DONE, installing ANY package generally requires no more than "apt-get packagename" and ALL dependencies will be resolved and downloaded as necessary. Not to say you can't run into problems occasionally, but far better than any other binary package managment I've seen for Linux. This generally works with any debian-based distribution, but note that there can be "special" packages they use that won't work quite so smoothly. You can't blame anyone but the distribution for that though. - Bob
