Very helpful (and eye-opening) discussion of installation issues - thanks. Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll note my favorite, the first install I make on new systems: wajig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajig) for command-line installs.
It combines the confusing array of apt-* commands into one unified command, auto-invokes sudo when necessary, and much more. Cheers, Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:15:46PM +0000, Matt Wheeler wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, 18:21 Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that > anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use > a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. > > > I'd add to this that aptitude has an excellent curses-based interactive mode > (just run aptitude with no options) which feels > similar to synaptic to use. Very powerful search options (which are also > available on the aptitude command line) and interactive > resolver choice selection which is occasionally very useful. > > A surprising number of people on debian-devel were unaware that aptitude has > an interactive mode during a related discussion over > there, so I think it's worth pointing out here too :). > > -- > > -- > Matt Wheeler > http://funkyh.at > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
