time setting in debian

[Collins Richey]

On 2/23/06, Dallam Wych <dallam.wyche at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Collins,
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:31:09PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> > I presume that aptitude is gui and gnome based? Gnome is not my
> > favorite desktop. Most of my life I've run xfce or IceWM, and right
> > now I'm running KDE just to see what the other half is like.
>
> Aptitude is just another front end for dpkg...as are apt and synaptic
> and is run from the command line same as apt. Doesn't have anything
> to do with any desktop or gui.
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude upgrade
> aptitude install <package>
> aptitude remove <package>

OK, I probaqbly had aptitude confused with synaptic.
>
> Works pretty much the same way in that regard.
> One main difference is that aptitude keeps track of all package
> dependencies. So lets say you aptitude install <package> and
> <package> has six other packages as dependencies, aptitude remembers
> these other packages. If you ever aptitude remove <package>,
> aptitude will also remove the other six packages. I haven't used apt in a
> long time, but I don't believe apt does that for you.
>

I'll have to give it a try some day.

> > Also, I've heard that it's a really bad idea to mix aptitude and
> > apt-get, and the two apt-get commands mentioned above are pretty damn
> > simple, expecially when all I have to do is up arrow in the Konsole
> > window!
>
> I don't know why it would be a bad idea, since they are just
> different front ends. Might be a bit unusual to use both though.
> It's nice to have choices :)
>

I think I'm still confusing aptitude with synaptic.

Thanks for the info,

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Collins Richey
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