Bob George wrote: > 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.
I aint always as clear as I'd like to be, but as I recall, the Corel distro seemed to have a custom apt-get that was spozed to run thru their servers... which were no longer online. Xandros seems to have the same setup, but their servers are, AFAIK, still online. However, the distro is so complete, I've not had the need to monkey with it. > >
