On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 05:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:31, cr wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:40:14 +0200, cr wrote: > > > > ... having just recovered from another screaming encounter with dselect. > > > > > > One word: aptitude > > > > Thanks, I'll bear 'aptitude' in mind (though I tend to be lazy and use > > kpackage wherever possible), but dselect is the app written into the > > installer. > > > > dselect is actually not so bad on a one-app basis, it's trying to use it to > > select all the apps for an install where it rapidly gets old. ;) > > Call me weird, but unless I'm only installing one or two packages (which > I'll just use apt-get to do) I think dselect is the best tool for the > job. It lets you see recommended and suggested packages while > automatically showing you which dependencies need to be installed. It's > also the only really "intuitive" package manager I've found. It took me > about 2 hours of playing with it to understand it. I've tried aptitude > and a few of the available GUI frontends (though I admit I've never > tried kpackage) and even after 2 hours I just can't get the hang of 'em. > Though I know of QUITE a few people who absolutely swear by aptitude. > Personally, I couldn't be happier with dselect. :)
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