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minus-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·edit-217 days agoDebian users: What do you mean by PPA? Also: apt-get is intended as low-level APT interface for scripts, just use apt instead. I get why people are confused nowadays, because APT documentation is terrible.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-216 days ago apt-get is intended as low-level APT interface for scripts Ah, that’s what they call it now. I wonder to what they degraded dpkg then?
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·16 days agoIsn’t dpkg just the program that installs DEB files, without handling dependency resolution?
minus-squarenotarobot@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoI thought apt-get was a transitional command made so that the devs could make a breaking change, but now that that is done, its no longer needed
minus-squarepewpew@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days agoAlso you usually do update before upgrade, not after
Debian users:
Also:
apt-getis intended as low-level APT interface for scripts, just useaptinstead. I get why people are confused nowadays, because APT documentation is terrible.Ah, that’s what they call it now.
I wonder to what they degraded dpkg then?
Isn’t dpkg just the program that installs DEB files, without handling dependency resolution?
Yes, apt and apt-* use it.
I thought apt-get was a transitional command made so that the devs could make a breaking change, but now that that is done, its no longer needed
Also you usually do update before upgrade, not after