[Sussex] Apt-Get

[Stephen Williams]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:36 +0000, Angelo Servini wrote:
> I notice you use apt-get on gentoo?  Is that easy to install?
> 

Apt-get on Gentoo? 

emerge -p apt-get

These are the packages that I would merge:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "apt-get".

emerge -p apt

These are the packages that I would merge:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "apt".

Did you mean apt-get on Ubuntu?

Why would apt appeal more than portage?

Steve Williams.

> Synaptic on Ubuntu also looks quite nice to use.
> 
> <Matthew Macdonald-Wallace said>
> <snip>
> > The keyboard on my laptop does not work unless I am running 
> > hwsetup  (possible a Debian thing, not sure, pretty certain I 
> > had to emerge apt-get to install it!) at boot time.
> > 
> 
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