Re: installing and uninstalling on Linux
- From: Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 10:06:13 +0200
John Salerno enlightened us with:
I'm thinking of Ubuntu specifically, if that matters. My question
is, when you install something, can you just download and install
things straight from the internet yourself, or does Linux have
download managers that you have to use to get software through?
You don't need download managers to download software. You can use a
regular browser for that. You do want to use the package manager to
install them, though, so you can easily remove all files. If you tell
the package manager to 'Purge' the package, it'll also remove
configuration files. Otherwise, those stay behind in case you want to
reinstall or upgrade the package.
Sybren
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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