Mewtamer.
I think there are a couple different choices for alternatives or front ends or
whatever they are called for pacman.
Right now I can't remember though. As the command line programs always worked
for me on any distro just fine.
I read a post once that spoke of pacman being a bit hard to remember command
syntax.
It is not as basic as apt-get that is for sure.
But some say it offers more control because it does more.
For my purposes. It does about the same as apt-get.
One thing I have noticed pacman lists the most recent date of the package.
So you can do pacman -Si packagename. And there will be a line in there on the
date that version of the package was released to arch or compiled on arch.
I don't know if apt has a similar way to find out or not. But I found out that
if you simply go into the packages doc folder and read the debian changelog
file it will tell you at the top of the file the date of the latest release to
debian for that package.
Which really helps me if I am trying to decide whether or not I want to go and
install the latest package version.
that helps when I can't figure how to get the version number on the package. Or
to see what changes debian made that I wish they hadn't or I felt was
unnecessary for them to integrate that change. ETC.
There are a few reasons I like to keep packages some of them up to date even if
they have bugs.
So I guess my view is maybe I should use arch or slint because debian stable is
definitely a little old for my tastes.
I know I could upgrade to testing or even unstable. But I don't know that I
want to go that far. The packages I want the most recent versions to. Will
compile with a slightly older version of GCC. But finding certain libraries.
That is the other issue.
Arch has the AUR. But I found myself using the AUR as a resource to find the
packages. Not as a resource to build and compile external packages. As those
packages either are out of date anyway and I have to go to the main site to get
the updated version or whatever ETC.
Or they get orphaned. I like the arch linux aur for some things. But not for
compiling packages. If I need to go to the web site and compile the packages. I
may as well compile them myself anyway.
But I am rambling and getting off topic.
Later.
Jessica
Slint is Slackware based, so it has a different package management
system from both the Debian based Raspbian and the Arch-based Stormux.
Though, speaking of package management, On Debian-based systems, I
almost exclusively use Aptitude, an ncurses-based text-only frontend
to apt that makes it easy to keep track of what packages I have
installed, what packages are available, and what depends on what.
Anyone know if a similar terminal applications exists for the package
management systems used by Arch and Slackware and their respective
derivatives?
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