[ale] Ubuntu help

[Preston Boyington]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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> There used to be an advantage in aptitude in that it would pull
> Recommends: dependencies automatically.  However, apt-get now does this
> as well, unless you tell it --no-install-recommends.
> 

nice.  i wasn't aware of that.  i've even found where the Aptitude-gtk
is gaining ground.  haven't used it yet, but if it works well i will try
swapping it out for Synaptic on a test machine.

Preston

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