On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Curious: what does apt-get do that aptitude non-interactive do; how > > does the user's experience of each differ? I thought that aptitude for > > simple stuff a drop-in replacement for apt-get. > > > > sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs > sudo apt-get source texmacs > > Replace texmacs with your favorite package name. More info on what the > commands do can be read from the man page of apt-get. AFAIK, there are no > aptitude equivalents for the above commands.
Are those things a newbie cares about? I've never used them in the 8 years I've been using debian. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]