Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Kudos for you Matthew. Fonts are a package category which need a GUI to show some preview images. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Colin Law wrote on 26/08/17 18:21: >>… >> OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >>

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Colin Law wrote on 26/08/17 18:21: >… > OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that > anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use > a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. >… Fonts are a clear example of packages that

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Very helpful (and eye-opening) discussion of installation issues - thanks. Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll note my favorite, the first install I make on new systems: wajig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajig) for command-line installs. It combines the confusing array of apt-* commands

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:47:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Regarding >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1551273 >it might be, that by design it only shows apps with a GUI :p. My apologies, this bug seems to be about another software installer GUI. It seems to be an

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 23:10 +0300, Коля Гурьев wrote: > 26.08.2017 19:16, Nrbrtx пишет: > > Let's assume that we need to install libgtk2.0-dev from gnome-software. > > How to do it? Simple search of libgtk2.0-dev produces no results (note: > > software-center finds and installs this package). Any

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:04:56 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >I have never used auto-apt. Neither have I. I installed it just in case it should be useful some day. >In Debian Stretch it works very stable. It is pre-installed as >recommendation for Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, LXQT, LXDE and other desktops In my

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, 18:21 Colin Law wrote: > OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that > anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use > a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. > I'd add to this

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Thank you, Ralf! > To see into what packages software from upstream is >split https://tracker.debian.org/ is helpful. Helpful >is https://packages.ubuntu.com/ in combination with Google. I'm very familiar with this sites and console utilities - apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude, dpkg, apt-file

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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Nrbrtx wrote: > I discovered another great tool - Muon Package Manager. It really rocks. > I'll try to use it as Synaptic replacement. Please also try gnome-packagekit. (It installs an app named Packages). One more issue with Synaptic is that

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26.08.2017 19:16, Nrbrtx пишет: Let's assume that we need to install libgtk2.0-dev from gnome-software. How to do it? Simple search of libgtk2.0-dev produces no results (note: software-center finds and installs this package). Any other ideas? gnome-software is a toy for installing nice games

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PS: "auto-apt search Xlib.h" - http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Auto-apt "sudo auto-apt run ./configure" - https://www.howtogeek.com/106526/how-to-resolve-dependencies-while-compiling-software-on-ubuntu/ FWIW I only run tool update or tool upd to upgrade everything, since I wrote a

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:36:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >http://www.debiananwenderhandbuch.de/auto-apt.html The text I found is in English, on the left there is a selection box were you could chose the language, seemingly the original link is in German. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:32:34 +0300, Nrbrtx wrote: >>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >>anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use >>a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. >lol :) > >In other words

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>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use >a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. lol :) In other words gnome-software is not a good alternative for software-center. It's

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On 26 August 2017 at 17:16, Nrbrtx wrote: > IMHO gnome-software is too simplified and stupid as all modern GNOME. > No options (except of shortcut to software-properties-gtk), no advanced > search. > I will not use it. 63% of 88 reviews are negative. > >> It has exactly the same

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IMHO gnome-software is too simplified and stupid as all modern GNOME. No options (except of shortcut to software-properties-gtk), no advanced search. I will not use it. 63% of 88 reviews are negative. > It has exactly the same set of s/w available as Synaptic does. False. Let's assume that we

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx wrote: > Dear Ubuntu developers! > > I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06. > So let me write about installing programs. > > As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation: > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg,

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Thank you for reply, Matthew! I discovered another great tool - Muon Package Manager. It really rocks. I'll try to use it as Synaptic replacement. But please take care about aforementioned bugs. I list them again: bug 1612948: axi-cache conversion to python3 broke the script (12 users affected)

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Nrbrtx wrote on 24/08/17 01:33: >… > As far I can understand here were two methods of software > installation: > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users > 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for newbies. Synaptic is fine for what it is, but it is not even close to being “for

Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Dear Ubuntu developers! I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06. So let me write about installing programs. As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation: 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for