Installing Opera

repo · 05-24-2009, 10:01 AM

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why did you have me using sudo aptitude, rather than sudo apt-???

Some use aptitude, some people use apt-get.
Take a look at
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/aptitude

An other option is to use synaptic, the GUI packetmanager.

jdkaye · 05-24-2009, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by thedoctor818

That finally worked, thanks SO much. BYW, why did you have me using sudo aptitude, rather than sudo apt-???

I think there are about a zillion threads explaining the advantages of aptitude over apt-get in Debian based systems including threads on LinuxQuestions. About 10 seconds of googling

Code:

apt-get aptitude

will get you all the info you like.
Cheers,
jdk