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pay — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:50 +0000

You can also download development packages for compilling a program with sudo apt-get build-dep neverball and you can compile with with sudo apt-get –build source neverball. Usefull if you find a package that doesn’t match your distro or architecture. Also does anyone know if there is a command that allows you to download the .deb package to your home folder without installing it so you can install it later?

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By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:00:48 +0000

Hey Iker,

It probably means you don’t have the correct repositories set up. See:

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=502

and

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=515

geek out

By: iker

iker — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:55:03 +0000

“First, letâ€™s see if there really is a program out there called Neverball.

sudo apt-cache search neverball

We can see that yes…”

Ok, what if it doesn’t?

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By: towsonu2003

towsonu2003 — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:15:18 +0000

aptitude seems to be better than apt-get. imagine you installed ubuntu-desktop: a metapackage that install more than a gigabyte of data. what if you wanna switch to xubuntu-desktop? (un)install ubuntu-desktop with apt-get and you will have all that hard disk space still occupied. but if you installed the package with aptitude and now uninstall it with aptitude, than you will get rid of all the packages it installed as well…

2 disadvantages of aptitude:
* apt-get is much better (longer) tested
* synaptic works with apt-get, not aptitude.

By: Null

Null — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:42:55 +0000

aptitude is preferred to apt-get as it handles dependencies and orphaned packages much better.

Furthermore, aptitude has both a CLI that resembles apt-get and
a curses interface.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:53:07 +0000

I have been using apt-get for a long time. Practically, I run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade almost everyday. My system is a development version of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, thus there is always something new everyday.

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:26:00 +0000

Hey Mausen,

It does. Sometimes. Sometimes if dependancies aren’t removed, you can use Benj’s suggestion of deborphan to get rid of them.

geek out

By: Mausen

Mausen — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:23:47 +0000

So if you apt-get remove package, does that remove all of the packages installed as dependencies that aren’t being used by any other explicitly installed packages?

This has been bugging me for a while now, and nothing that I’ve seen so far seems to adequately answer it.

By: Benj

Benj — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:17:20 +0000

You might also be interested in deborphan:

Package: deborphan
Description: Find orphaned libraries
deborphan finds “orphaned” packages on your system.
It determines which packages have no other packages
depending on their installation, and shows you a list of
these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries,
but it can be used on packages in all sections.

Its output is simple so that you can do this:

$ sudo apt-get remove –purge `deborphan`

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:55:13 +0000

Hi Ben,

That’s true, but I like the sense of power I get when I sudo things. It’s like my linux box is a tiny little universe, and I, SUDO USER COMMAND AND CONTROL ALL FUNCTI… er. Yeah. You can do that as a normal user.

geek out.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:11:39 +0000

sudo apt-cache search neverball

sudo is not necessary here. Normal users can apt-cache.

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