1. apt-get
- Posted by Jerry Story <story.jerry at gmail.com> Mar 08, 2007
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This is what the Ubuntu apt-get does: [quote] # apt-get install mozilla Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libnss3 mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm Suggested packages: mozilla-chatzilla Recommended packages: myspell-en-us myspell-dictionary The following NEW packages will be installed: libnss3 mozilla mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 2658kB of archives. After unpacking 7991kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [end quote] apt-get finds on the internet the latest version of the package to be installed and finds all the dependencies and puts it in the menu. You don't need to do much. Just watch in amazement. Maybe some day: # apt-get install wxEuphoria Then it would install Euphoria and wxeu.so and all that and then there would be no more problems with Ubuntu and Debian. Ubuntu also seems to regularly check for updates of everything. apt-get has a cool wrapper: Synaptic Package Manager
2. Re: apt-get
- Posted by Alan Oxley <fizzpop at axemail.co.za> Mar 08, 2007
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Fantastic I agree. I've "done my time" with dependancy hell with other distro's that use RPM's where you have to figure out dependancies yourself. I'll be watching for the Euphoria apt-get too !
3. Re: apt-get
- Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Mar 08, 2007
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Jerry Story wrote: > apt-get has a cool wrapper: Synaptic Package Manager I like aptitude myself. I was able to completely hose my system using Synaptic. Linux and Windows both. However, I've set the system up now where it shouldn't be able to hose Windows and since I no longer use Syanptic I hopefully won't be able to hose Linux either. Oh, and I'm using Debian Testing. Heh, I even get a little graphical update thingy that pops up like Windows does though! Anyway, what it would take would be for someone to make and maintain a deb package for Euphoria and WxEuphoria and talk to the distro maintainers to have the package added to the repository. Not impossible, but not really a small thing either. -- "Any programming problem can be solved by adding a level of indirection." --anonymous "Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection." --M. Haertel "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." --C.A.R. Hoare j.