APT GET - Can someone please describe...

[Greg Germ]

Greetings - I have mucked around with Mandrake and Redhat and waaay back when Slackware.

I have a general idea what APT GET is for Debian, but some users are saying that it is practically THE reason why people should use Debian.

Can someone give a good detailed description of Apt Get? Much appreciated...

-Germ

[blink]

apt-get is basically a way to install and upgrade software....

If you want netscape, just type
"apt-get install netscape" and it's there (after being downloaded)

Also, if you want to upgrade or get security fixes apt-get make this easy as typing one command.

Give Debian a try, it might just be something you really like....

[Tyr-7BE]

Agreed...Debian isn't just a great distro...it has one of the most sophistocated package managers on the planet. "apt-get install apache" installs Apache web server, as well as two other dependencies which Apache requires. Unless you request an impossible situation (not likely unless you're using unstable sources), apt-get will go smoothly 100% of the time, downloading everything it needs to work perfectly and putting it where it's easily found. Go Debian, and don't go back :)

[foo_bar]

Dependencies are the main reason it works out so well. Not only when you install netcape, will it get the netscape files, but all the other files it will need to run (even X if you don't have it). Plus it installs it all in the correct order.

Very cool...saves tons of time.