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RE: dselect vs apt



It appears Corel/Debian Linux offers some X graphical interface to deslect.
Check out:

http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os/highlights.htm

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Oki DZ [mailto:litbang@haltek.telkom.net.id]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 7:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dselect vs apt




Urban Gabor wrote:
>
> Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major
> differences between dselect and apt.

dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based.
dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty straightforward.

I think xdselect (if there's any such thing) would be a lot neater than
dselect.

>I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I
> allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD
> images. Why would I switch to apt?

I always do the installation using the Net, 'cause I don't have the CDs
yet...

Oki

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