1. apt-get
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
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
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
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