Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 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.
Probably not! But if you want to compile debian packages from source then I think you need those commands. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
