Even on the command line you can choose different utilities to install packages. But I don't know why one should not use synapitc to install a command line tool. I think that it is not good to be inconsistent. The user could try to find a reason why alien can only be installed by sudo apt-get install and not with other tools.
-- command not found is a bad test case for checking if a package is installed https://launchpad.net/bugs/71622 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
