On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Celejar wrote: > > > > > It's more powerful and can do anything that apt-get can > > What are the aptitude equivalents of > > sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs Interesting point. Google found this: http://p12n.org/hacks/aptitude-build-dep > apt-get source grep Anyway, apparently I was wrong; aptitude can't do quite everything that apt-get can. Live and learn ... > > , and in my experience, Synaptic's > > GUI doesn't add much value, and you can use aptitude in interactive > > mode. > > > > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I > want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synaptic all I > do is type vim. I could not find a simple way of doing this in aptitude. What about '/' (opens the regex search bar) followed by '^vim' <enter>? > For me, the default menu structure is too cumbersome to traverse. I am not > trying to berate aptitude here, just highlighting some of my > inconveniences. I know what you mean, but it doesn't take that long to get used to, and once you do you may like it. YMMV, of course. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
