On 10/08/2017 11:12 PM, anxious...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, 9 October 2017 06:50:03 UTC+1, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Is there some kind of man page or something to explain what foo.deb is
and or bar.deb is, because in my 20+ years googling or other ways I
don't understand. If not I've been doing fine without knowing. I will
say I probably got gdebi and dpkg -i mixed up, but I do know that #dpkg
-i (package name) will install the package if you cd to the directory
where the package is. But you are probably right, I just don't know
what you're saying. To me bar is someplace where people go to talk about
foo.
Foo, bar and baz are metasyntactic variables, placeholders having similar
functions to x and y in algebra. Wikipedia and The New Hackers Dictionary have
good explanations and many further examples. See also FUBAR, but foo was in use
before WW2.
I did see the relationship with algebra. I have never thought to look
for a definition of those words/code(foo, bar and baz are meta-syntactic
variables). I do hope I never have to use them, but if the occasion
comes, I will try and comprehend how it works, also the apt-offline
thing too. Thank you.
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Jimmy Johnson
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Registered Linux User #380263
