[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Tue Feb 3 10:44:11 EST 2009


On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, ethan@757.org wrote:

 >> I've always been perplexed by why people need to download a whole DVD
 >> and burn it to disk in order to install. Do non-Debian based distros not
 >> have apt* or something similar? Who really needs to install an entire
 >> DVD worth of software?
 >> -Eric Rz.
 >
 >Others have Yum and such, but I think some people look for a Windows style 
 >install experience :-) Plus it can be a pain hunting down dependencies.

As a sort of novice person using Ubuntu I thought that apt and (synaptic
also) checked out dependencies.

Once you used the CD for the install you use synaptic to search out the 
other programs you need and it gets them and the supporting 
libraries. it also comes up and tells you which libraries it is going 
to replace when it does updates.

that was my impression.


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