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Arabian wrote:As far as I know apt has the same possibilities like the frontend aptitude. Apt is for users who prefer the shell, aptitude for these who like gui stuff.

Wrong.

If you use any other package manager sooner or later, your system will be screwed up by the package manager. Do you have any evidence for that claim? I've never used aptitude once... and I've been using debian since before woody and never ended up with a screwed up system. Who knew I was putting my...

I use only Aptitude for package installation (with dpkg -i or make on a rare occasion), and there are never any package installation issues. If you use only Aptitude for package installation (with dpkg -i or make on a rare occasion), and there will never be any package installation issues. If you us...

I just glanced through the thread. Looked like a Three Stooges routine. Didn't see any reference to the primary issue. What card are you all trying to install? Do you even need NdisWrapper? Most cards don't, especially if you have an up-to-date kernel. If you're still running Etch, I suppose you des...

Generally speaking, do not follow advice from BioTube regarding Aptitude. He gives lots of reasonable advice, but that is not his strong area. Now you have a mess.

I use Epiphany, and I suppose it wouldn't work either. The main reason informed people use free software is to get away from this sort of problem. Why entangle yourself with MS anyway ... Dump the Hotmail account.

Taking a quick look around the Web, I don't see any real entanglements between the NEA and MS. The ignorant IT staffs at high schools would have been a better culprit. Are they in the NEA? Nevertheless, Helios won't have to back off his statement for legal reasons. Since both MS lobbies and those of...

Let me tell you some of the little bit I know about Ken Stark. In the first place, although I have exchanged an email or two with him, I doubt that he remembers me from Adam, so I'm most comfortable with the only name he uses electronically, ... Helios. I've been reading his blog intermittently for ...

Cisco would evidently rather donate hundreds of thousand dollars per year to various Linux projects which will benefit them, than allow people to see their Linux code modifications. Hopefully, they will soon understand that the GPL doesn't offer that option. There could be some interesting conversat...

Amazingly incoherent questions, but people try to answer anyway. We are definitely a determined bunch.

There are plenty of other threads discussing aptitude / apt-get / synaptic / etc. Don't clutter up this one.

I've never been good at this racism stuff but lately I have been actively working at it. I started by trying to hate people of different color starting with the darkest tones then worked my way up. I called it a success when I successfully hated anyone with the slightest hint of a tan. Watch out! N...

Synaptic is for children and incompetent newbies. There is a GUI version of Aptitude that will probably move into Sid sometime after the Lenny freeze. Quick! Learn how to use Aptitude correctly (from the command line) before the confusion starts.

You can not pass yourself off as a Unix user if you do not know rudimentary vi/vim.

Vimtutor is the solution.

Well, it's the end of Adept. That's a shame.

Why is that (a shame). Good riddance from everything I've ever read about it.

Many developers are always looking for translation help. If you did it in a manner acceptable to them, you shouldn't have much trouble getting your work into the official release. If it's really well done, you'll probably be inundated by others wanting help as well. Contact the gcompris maintainer ....

No disadvantages ... few advantages right now. I went 64-bit two years ago, when I realized, I could have the OS of tomorrow, today, with no downside

Evidently, there is or was recently a scandal on the devel list mostly between Josselin Mouette (Gnome maintainer) and Miriam Ruiz (Games and Gnash maintainer). She claimed he said something sexist, he, like any red blooded male, said you're just too sensitive and embued in political correctness. I ...

vmclark wrote: This is a good explanation without the flaming :
apt-get vs aptitude

That is a good one. I think I had the first link to that one, on these forums back in the days when there were serious arguments between knowledgeable people about which was best. Fortunately, those days are long gone.