17 Feb
2013
17 Feb
'13
4:12 p.m.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:04:24 -1000
david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
On 02/16/2013 05:10 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
Exactly! I use apt-get for the basics, then once I have a desktop, use synaptic
for ease of use and visibility. Also, just installing it pulls in a lot of what
I'm going to need anyway :)
I stress this is for a pretty *basic* install. Depending on what the machine is
being used for there is likely to be a lot of other things I'll pull in, which
makes synaptic even more desirable.
Incidentally, ROX and/or Openbox will pull in xterm.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:50:53AM +0000,
Folderol wrote:
I find synaptic a much-easier way to manage packages than the cryptic
command lines of apt-get or dpkg. For instance, I can easily see what a
particular package recommends and decide if I want to also include one
or more the recommendations. Don't know what Folderol thinks of that.
For some time now, and for work as well as home
office & DAW, I install the
absolutely minimum debian (not even the desktop initially), install mingetty
[...]
I then use apt-get to install synaptic, openbox
and rox-filer. This
One reboot and I'm into a fully functional minimum desktop, after which I use
synaptic to pull in whatever else I need, depending on what the machine is
going to be used for - I compile specialist stuff of course.
Of course, if you were running a truly minimum desktop, you don't even
need synaptic because apt-get is installed anyway.