1. Consistency of documentations - 2. Release specific documentation
Doug Smythies
dsmythies at telus.net
Wed Aug 17 13:46:29 UTC 2016
On 2016.08.17 03:34 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:21:56 +0200, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
>> Ralf Mardorf:
>>> I wounder if we should prefer "apt" over "apt-get" or doesn't it
>>> matter?
>>
>> I think that for the moment "apt-get" is a better option because it
>> will work in any supported Ubuntu release. But I will change to "apt"
>> when all supported releases have that, which is in 2019.
>>
> Thank you,
>
> I suspect you're speaking about a default install, since regarding
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ apt is available for all supported
> releases, just for 12.04 the version is < 1. EOL for 12.04 is in 2017.
> For 14.04 the available version of apt already is 1.
>
> Ok, I'll stay with apt-get, I just asked, since I noticed that on
> mailing lists there are tendencies to recommend apt.
>
In the 16.04 ubuntu severguide [1] all occurrences of "apt-get" were changed
to "apt".
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/index.html
... Doug
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