[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Sun Nov 27 22:24:11 PST 2005


On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:41:16PM -0800, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > I know you said that you're having trouble making it to the
> > meetings, but if you can make it to the December 13th meeting, we'd
> > love to have you on the panel to cover Ubuntu.  No pressure :)
> > Maybe we could even get you some extra credit for that speech
> > class...
> 
> 
> The meeting falls on finals week, but I'll tentatively agree. I've
> been using Linux for what, two years now, but I still feel like a
> newbie around everybody at the meetings. :-P

O.k., cool.  If you can't make it, no biggie, we'll work around it. I've
found that if you avoid talking with Eric, you won't learn as much, but
you also won't feel as ignorant ;)

> I'm a fan of Debian, but I don't know that I really know enough about it to
> cover it. Actually, I could probably cover everything I know about Debian
> right here:
> 
> aptitude (curses!)
> Synaptic (gtk!)
> apt-get install foo
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
> dpkg -i foo-1.0-i386.deb

Ahh, you should play around with using aptitude as a straight apt-get
replacement:
aptitude install foo
aptitude update; apt-get upgrade

Its dependency handling is better for one.  Say you 'aptitude install
packageA' while pulls in packages B,C and D.  If you later 'aptitude
remove packageA' B, C, and D are gone also.  There's also some very cool
stuff in Sid WRT to conflict handling.  Aptitude will actually suggest
several different ways of handling a given dependency situation.

...I personally prefer to have aptitude NOT auto install 'recommends'

> Would it be helpful for me to bring my laptop that has Ubuntu and Debian
> installed?

Yes, it would.  We're anticipating being able to take questions and/or
demo interesting things.  So folks, if there are things you'd like to
know about Distro X or something in particular you'd like to see demo'd,
please speak up now or be prepared to speak up at the meeting.

-troy




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