[Sussex] Woody, here I come :-)

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Tue Feb 24 01:38:39 UTC 2004


Thomas

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:31:10AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  --- Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote: 
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:16:23AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > > Or even aptitude, which will function as a much a cleaner interface
> > > for dselect (if used with no parameters) and also for apt-get and
> > > apt-cache.
> > 
> > Never really used it.  I find apt-{file,cache,get} works for me, but
> > then I like the command line just fine.
> 
> aptitude is curses based, and hence is command-line based. Was you
> thinking of synaptic which was GUI-based?

No - I like commands I can run from cron and pass the output into a 
pipe or off to a file.
 
Steve D




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