Comments on: Do You Have an Aptitude for Software? http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: cute screen recorder http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-449575 cute screen recorder Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:12:52 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-449575 Remarkable issues here. I'm very happy to look your article. Thanks a lot and I'm taking a look ahead to touch you. Will you please drop me a e-mail? Remarkable issues here. I’m very happy to look your article. Thanks a lot and I’m taking a look ahead to touch you. Will you please drop me a e-mail?

]]> By: mstombs http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8199 mstombs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8199 <p>How can a serious distro even have the package apt-get with \"This APT has Super Cow Powers\" and juvenile humour \"apt-get moo\"?</p> <p>And how old is aptitude, must be at least 10 years? How can you promote such an old-fashioned ascii art command line tool, that reminds us oldies of cga monitors?</p> <p>Aren\'t both just front ends to dpkg?</p> <p>What about synaptic if you are using gnome, or webmin if remote managing? </p> How can a serious distro even have the package apt-get with \”This APT has Super Cow Powers\” and juvenile humour \”apt-get moo\”?

And how old is aptitude, must be at least 10 years? How can you promote such an old-fashioned ascii art command line tool, that reminds us oldies of cga monitors?

Aren\’t both just front ends to dpkg?

What about synaptic if you are using gnome, or webmin if remote managing?

]]> By: eshneto http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8200 eshneto Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8200 <p>Well, it makes me sick when I mistype a command such as \"sudo aptitude instal blender\" (note the missing \"l\") and get the ridiculous message:<br /> \"This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers\".</p> <p>Is it serious software? Dude, get real! </p> Well, it makes me sick when I mistype a command such as \”sudo aptitude instal blender\” (note the missing \”l\”) and get the ridiculous message:
\”This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers\”.

Is it serious software? Dude, get real!

]]> By: unixguy http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8201 unixguy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8201 <p>Use the regular expression capability of dpkg. In the example, do <code>dpkg -l apt\\*</code> rather than <code>dpkg -l | grep apt</code><code>.</code> </p> Use the regular expression capability of dpkg. In the example, do dpkg -l apt\\* rather than dpkg -l | grep apt.

]]> By: chavoux http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8202 chavoux Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8202 <p>I, for one, has Synaptic installed, but somehow still prefer aptitude. It still seems to handle package dependencies better IMHO. OTOH I like the power of the command line and can get many things done quicker from the CLI than clicking around on the desktop. My other favourite program is mc (Midnight Commander), so maybe it is just personal taste? </p> I, for one, has Synaptic installed, but somehow still prefer aptitude. It still seems to handle package dependencies better IMHO. OTOH I like the power of the command line and can get many things done quicker from the CLI than clicking around on the desktop. My other favourite program is mc (Midnight Commander), so maybe it is just personal taste?

]]> By: flomanno http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8203 flomanno Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8203 <p>Not sure what eshneto means when he says \'serious software\', because the error message actually said something informative (in a cute way). Does he mean real serious software like MS Windows with which has so many illuminating error messages with it\'s blue screen of death? </p> Not sure what eshneto means when he says \’serious software\’, because the error message actually said something informative (in a cute way). Does he mean real serious software like MS Windows with which has so many illuminating error messages with it\’s blue screen of death?

]]> By: bendib http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8204 bendib Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8204 <p>Yum gets what I need to do done. Aptitude is just another crappy debian-ish package manager. </p> Yum gets what I need to do done. Aptitude is just another crappy debian-ish package manager.

]]> By: grdetil http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8205 grdetil Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8205 <p>flomanno is right that the error message said something informative, but in this case there\'s a huge gap between informative and helpful. The information the message conveys to most users is \"we\'re in on the joke and you\'re not\", and not much more than that! Hardly helpful in pointing out what\'s wrong in the command line options. I think such inside jokes, and the defense of them by Linux users who are used to them, is at least part of the reason that Linux retains its reputation as a system by and for geeks. There\'s nothing wrong with cute jokes as long as they don\'t come at the expense of helpful or useful information. If they do, then it really is high time to get serious. </p> flomanno is right that the error message said something informative, but in this case there\’s a huge gap between informative and helpful. The information the message conveys to most users is \”we\’re in on the joke and you\’re not\”, and not much more than that! Hardly helpful in pointing out what\’s wrong in the command line options. I think such inside jokes, and the defense of them by Linux users who are used to them, is at least part of the reason that Linux retains its reputation as a system by and for geeks. There\’s nothing wrong with cute jokes as long as they don\’t come at the expense of helpful or useful information. If they do, then it really is high time to get serious.

]]> By: tedious http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8206 tedious Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8206 <p>No sense of humor... so sad. - Aptitude is very useful. If it doesn\'t suit your environment, then don\'t use it. And don\'t waste your precious time complaining.</p> <p>+1 flo </p> No sense of humor… so sad. – Aptitude is very useful. If it doesn\’t suit your environment, then don\’t use it. And don\’t waste your precious time complaining.

+1 flo

]]> By: pollix http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8207 pollix Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7752/#comment-8207 <p>In a better world -<br /> Mistype a command such as \"sudo aptitude instal blender\" (note the missing \"l\") and get the message:<br /> \"This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers\".<br /> - would be -<br /> \"ERROR - Aptitude\'s thinks you meant \"sudo aptitude install blender\"</p> <p>[YES] [NO] ...then run the corrected command.<br /> But that would require aptitude to be updated and maintained for of all commands and their common typos. </p> In a better world -
Mistype a command such as \”sudo aptitude instal blender\” (note the missing \”l\”) and get the message:
\”This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers\”.
- would be -
\”ERROR – Aptitude\’s thinks you meant \”sudo aptitude install blender\”

[YES] [NO] …then run the corrected command.
But that would require aptitude to be updated and maintained for of all commands and their common typos.

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