Hi Constantine, 'apt-get' installs Debian packages from repositories defined in /etc/apt/sources.list.
If you need to install manually a .deb file use `sudo dpkg - i file.deb` instead. I do not know the exact syntax of pure 'apt' executable. Kurt may help you with this. Hope that helps. -- Greg 2017-02-28 13:10 GMT+01:00 Constantine Frangos <[email protected]>: > > Hi Kurt, > > Thanks again for the fast response. Please see my comments below. > > %BTW is your system up to date? > %apt update? > %apt upgrade? > %(Possibly it's still apt-get in LTS 14.0) > > In this regard I wanted to ask the following: > > (1) If I use the command line > > apt update > apt upgrade > > will the system proceed on its own to download possibly > hundreds of megabytes (or even gigabytes) of upgraded > packages without asking me first? > > (2) Is there a way I can do the above by using the > synaptic package manager GUI and somehow select which > upgraded packages I want to download? > > > Another alternative would be for somebody to put the > > constructed fricas deb package on a website link > > and for interested users to download it from there. > > %The official tar.bz2 is really easy to install, I mean it makes no sense > to > %download a *.deb file from a website. IMO it will make sense only if > Fricas can > %be installed by "sudo apt install fricas" (including removal/update). > %Let's think about it (how, who and when?) > > Yes, this is the best case, and I wanted to actually > suggest this. I think that there are deb packages > for axiom and openaxiom listed in the synaptic package > manager. > > I assume that the fricas deb package will have to be > added to the ubuntu 14.04/16.04/etc repositories? > > Just to be clear. Assume I use the following command > you provided to create the fricas deb package > fricas-1.3.1.deb: > > fpm -s tar -t deb -n fricas -v 1.3.1 fricas-1.3.1.tar.bz2 > > I then install the created deb package by using the following > command: > > sudo apt-get install fricas-1.3.1.deb > > Is this correct? > > > Regards, > Constantine. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
