- Joined
- May 25, 2013
Married a doll again.
Looks like he may be living in a tent:
Youtube video played at the virtual wedding reception
Looks like he may be living in a tent:
Elisabeth at her first day on the job at AlexaTilbrook.com Linux Juggalette Entertainment Development:
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(Me: "Elisabeth, sweetie, Google it.")
Aww... But I don't wanna Google it, Alexa! Tell me what apt-get does!
Okay, Lissie. I'll teach you. For further reference, go here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto, or type 'man apt' at a terminal prompt. To get there, press Ctrl + Alt + T.
APT is an acronym. It stands for Advanced Package Tool. It started off as a tool in Debian, in which Ubuntu is a fork of Debian; as an alternative to the now-deprecated dselect... in which there's an old Debian joke that went...
Quote:
I got touched inappropriately by dselect as a small child and refuse to go near Debian ever again.
Similar tools to APT are DNF in Fedora and Pacman (not the arcade game by Namco) in Arch Linux.
Think of it as Windows Update on steroids. Or, more appropriately, Windows Update and Windows App Store, or Google Play or the Mac OS X/iOS App Store.
It can update your system... PLUS it can install new software WITHOUT the need to search Google and download malware-wrapped installers from C|Net Download.com, or even SourceForge (yes, they still do that).
Don't like fucking with the terminal? Okay then, Elisabeth, try Synaptic! A GTK+ frontend to APT, you can search, download and install new software and perform updates.
Or if you prefer, Ubuntu Software Center.
There's more than one way to skin a cat in Linux.
But, the meat and potatoes of it are:
to install a new package:
sudo apt-get install [packagename]
To refresh the repository information:
sudo apt-get update
To upgrade the system:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
To add a new repository from a Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:[ppaname/ppa_path]
(This only applies to Ubuntu. 'add-apt-repository' is not available in Debian.)
sudo apt-get update
See, Elisabeth? It's not too difficult. Now get back to work!
Youtube video played at the virtual wedding reception
By request from my wife, Alexa, Starship, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now from the Mannequin soundtrack!