Aptitude
I am a newbie and it is my perhaps 15th post (thread). Not that the previous 14 enriched my knowledge so far but I feel a little better.
My environment is: Windows 7==>Oracle VirtualBox==>Ubuntu 12.4 (32 bit). At some of my previous posts a question about aptitude came up and I want to get a close look at it. (1) Is apt-get command a command related to Aptitude? (2) Is the Archive manager I see in my Download folder the same as: aptitude_0.4.1.11.11.1ubuntu10lucid1.1386.deb. So, it looks I downloaded it although I do not recall from where. (3) When I click on this file's name on the desktop I get the next page with this: Quote:
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Error in what? I simply clicked on the file's name, that's it. What kind of error is it? Then this stuff which I presume every Linux user has seen many times: Quote:
(5) What does it mean: dselect-like persistence of user actions? (6) What is Debian changelog? And the last line I presume is an attempt to be funny, right? When you try to figure out what almost every word means that last sentence does not sound too funny. I will appreciate any help. Thanks, - alexBB |
This is an update. Following instructions of this website I figured out that the Aptitude was not installed on my machine after all. Now it seems I installed it. Kind of funny. I saw the file somewhere in the directories and what it was doing there? The installation process raised other questions but they are so numerous I would rather mull them silently. Thanks. - alexBB
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Hi there,
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But as a rule of thumb: In modern Linux distros like Ubuntu and its kin, it is very, very uncommon to "download a programm and run an installer", as you'd normally do in Windows. All software management should preferably be done with apt-get or one of its front-ends aptitude or synaptic. That way you benefit from the community-maintained stock of software for your individual distro, you can be sure that it's not tampered with, and you have an automatic check for updates. Quote:
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Doc_CPU, You are a real DOC! Quite a bit of information and more clarity. I have already learned that I should not try to download anything and all the stuff should be here, somewhere, behind the apt-get command. Sure I have seen the word synaptic, but so far never used it. Thank you, - Alex
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Aptitude and apt-get are two different command-line approaches to using a repository. Debian prefers aptitude, but derivatives like Ubuntu prefer apt-get as simpler. Personally, I'd stick to (1) a gui program like synaptic or (2) apt-get, as that's what the repository assumes you're using.
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