[Gllug] Debian

[Rob Andrews]

[Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:32:19AM +0000] Bruce Richardson whispered thus:
 > > apt-get to install new stuff is pretty good, though I've not exactly
 > > found dselect to be very intuitive.
 > Try aptitude.  Much better, though not finished.  Also both KDE and Gnome 
 > have GUI frontends for apt.

dselect is, imho, a necessary evil. It's useful to know when packages become
obsolete - quite frequently there are old orphaned libraries left stale on
the machine. libgnomeprint* was a sod for that. One thing to note is that
doing an "apt-get update; dselect" isn't the same as running dselect and
selecting "2. [U]pdate" - the latter updates dselect's "available"
information, and hence you get lots of useful information.

I used to use console-apt, before it stopped being simple and started being
entirely too complicated for it's own good.

#include "speak_goodness_about_apt_proxy.h"

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