Re: Noob question - best way to install software

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

Curious: what does apt-get do that aptitude non-interactive do; how
does the user's experience of each differ? I thought that aptitude for
simple stuff a drop-in replacement for apt-get.


sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs
sudo apt-get source texmacs

Replace texmacs with your favorite package name. More info on what the
commands do can be read from the man page of apt-get. AFAIK, there are no
aptitude equivalents for the above commands.

Are those things a newbie cares about? I've never used them in the 8
years I've been using debian.

Doug.


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