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Managing software packages on Unix has always been, to put it politely, a giant pain, and most Linux distributions are built around the different ways we’ve all
by tkahn6 17y ago
Managing software packages on Unix has always been, to put it politely, a giant pain, and most Linux distributions are built around the different ways we’ve all been trying to alleviate that pain
Ubuntu (Debian) seems to do this very well in my opinion.
sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude upgrade
And with 9.10, to add a repository you can just do
ppa:$repository
To add Wine for example,
ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
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- brettnak 17y agoI actually came to OSX from Ubuntu and felt like I was in the dark ages without a package manager. The first time I tried to compile PHP ( 5.3.2 ) on an upgraded ( Leopard -> Snow Leopard ) machine, I had a million problems with the system's iconv and had to recompile a million packages. I then had to delete my iconv stuff, recompile it into /usr/local, then figure out exactly which binary from the original install to leave behind so that things would be detected properly with everything else. I think a lot of that has to do with php's build and search paths ( eg, it was finding headers in /usr/local, but trying to link to binaries in /usr ) but I can't help but feeling that with a proper package manager, that never would have happened. Macports can be pretty good, but I don't want to have to have so many things duplicated on my system. EDIT: Grammar