[Sussex] A rant on using different distributions

[Colin Tuckley]

Mark Harrison (Groups) wrote:

> When I want to do a particular task, the biggest problem is NOT working
> out which flags I need to use. It's working out which COMMAND I need to
> use. Once I've worked that out, I can follow MAN pages / HOWTOs with the
> best of them.
> 
> Remembering a single command name is a lot easier than remembering that
> there are multiple commands with similar names, and the first bit of the
> man page checking is working out which is appropriate.

You are making things overly complicated. All you need to remember is:

man apt

which will get you a nice overview of the package management system - which
is exactly what you say you need.

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