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Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:30:13 +0000
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Hi, Jason,

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:13:54AM +0800, Jason Rumney wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 08:06, Miles Bader wrote:
> >Alan Mackenzie<address@hidden>  writes:

> >>It is an old Debian system ("sarge") and I find its full screen
> >>packaging utility "aptitude" too baroque for my taste - it's almost
> >>as complicated to use as "mutt" (email client), and that amount of
> >>complication is excessive for a utility I might use two or three
> >>times a year.  I want a straightforward command line packaging system

> >Note that aptitude also works as a command line tool, if you give it a
> >command when invoking instead of just saying "aptitude".  (e.g. "sudo
> >aptitude install XXX" etc)

> Additionally, Debian includes apt-get, which is a command line tool
> that performs the same tasks as aptitude.

It is all these alternatives, with the rather mushy relationships between
them, the mass of background stuff you've got to know, and the hidden
trapdoors, which put me off Debian.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).




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