Re: MySQL server socket problem

Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:33:47 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you know whether to use dpkg, apt-get or aptitude? It looks like
> aptitude is the most high level, so why not use it all the time?

Everything on a stable Debian system should come from "the
repositories", and therefore you should always use apt-get or
aptitude, which are equivalent in this regard.

Using dpkg directly in order to install files is a mechanism of last
resort, and in general you should never be doing this unless you know
100% why you are needing to do it.

-jim

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