it all sounds good. thanks for the response.
On Sunday 02 December 2001 10:27 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > are there any pitfalls to using kpackage, in kde, for apt-gets? the user > > interface is real easy, making me suspicious, considering the subtle > > complexities of apt-get from the command line. > > I have been using kpackage here since the days of KDE version 2.1 on > Potato. I currently use it on my pinned testing/unstable system with > KDE version 2.2.2. During all this time, I have never had it mess up my > system doing the "apt-gets". It works fine for routine updates and > upgrades. > > Like any other GUI, it is limited in what it does compared to the > command-line "apt-get" commands, so you cannot get away from the command > line completely. This is especially true when working with > testing/unstable, where you occasionally have to intervene to get the > packages installed. In all of these cases I have encountered, it just > refuses to do anything. > > I find it most useful for browsing the list of "available" and > "installed" packages and easily fine-tuning my system. The GUI seems to > add another visual demention that I like for these purposes, plus it > gives the package descriptions & depend/recommend info automatically so > you can get a little info about a package before you commit. Doing this > at the command line is somewhat cumbersome for me. I also use it mainly > for single-package installs...I haven't really tried the equivalent of > "apt-get upgrade" too many times here, so I can't comment on how well > the upgrade function works on 20-30 new packages. > > There are other programs which do similar things...appitude, etc. If > you are familiar with the "Corel Update" package in Corel Linux, > Kpackage is the closest thing I have seen to it so-far. The only thing > Kpackage doesn't do is allow editing of the /etc/apt/sources.list file > that Corel Update would do. > > I really haven't checked out the KISS, RPM, TGZ, or BSD install side of > it yet. I have only worked with DEBs. Dunno how well that function > works. > > I like it and find it useful here as an adjunct to the command-line. > > Cheers, > -Don Spoon-
