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[Derek Broughton]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 15:09, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> There's no reason you need to stick to adept.
> I thought adept and synaptic use different data bases to keep tract of the
> installed programs and alternating would confuse them.

afaik, adept/synaptic/apt-get are all using the same database.  

>> I _think_ you'll get
>> different results between adept and aptitude, and synaptic and aptitude,
>> but they should give the same results as each other and apt-get.
> Not sure I understand.

aptitude maintains its own database to keep track of what has been
automatically installed, so that it can remove it again if not needed.

>> There is adept-manager and adept-installer.  adept-installer is the
>> stupid
>> little brother :-(  It explicitly only presents you a subset of the
>> actual
>> installable programs.  I can't say more because I have _never_ used it.
> Oh, I'm dissapointed, I thought it was a great program, easy to use.

I suppose that's the point - "installer" is easy to use, partly because it
only provides a limited subset of programs to install.  "manager" lets you
install anything that is available in a .deb, from anywhere.

> P.S. reinstalled dovecot with the right adept, back at the stage of
> editing
> the configuration file; "sudo dovecot -n"  still gives me errors I'm
> trying to solve one by one. Will work some time by myself before (not)
> having to ask for more help.

Good luck.
-- 
derek