On Saturday 29 July 2006 03:43, Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > Aptitude, are you still using that? Just use Synaptic on Ubuntu. The > problem as I wrote in my post before is that for some IDEs you don't > just download an executable but because they are written for Linux > first, on Windows you have to search and install a lot of helper > libraries that often takes quite a bit of time. > > And why do you want to spend half an hour searching for stuff when you > can do just spend 1 minute in a nice graphical installer or use apt-get > install on the command line to install it. > > I am using Ubuntu primarily because it has the .deb system which I > found to be much better mentained and which deals with dependecies a > lot better. > > Nick V.
Synaptic is using aptitude as back-end (this is serious). I also find deb system being the best. Managed with aptitude, not apt. Windows is definitely worth the effort. Best Regards, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
