From 4b6c0e31385f5f27a151088c0a2b614495c4e589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Duncan Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:47:50 -0400 Subject: initial commit, including theme --- .../posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html (limited to 'content/posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html') diff --git a/content/posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html b/content/posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cff18c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2001-06-19-google-apt-get-install.html @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +date: "2001-06-19T08:05:00Z" +title: google "apt-get install" +--- + +A few interesting things to report. After months and months of +relentless harassment by +various +members +the +evil +Debian +Mafia, I finally +succumbed to peer pressure and installed +Debian Linux -- or should I say +*cough* GNU/Linux -- on one of my spare machines. My initial +impression is as follows: HOLY CRAP! The installer is a bit rough, +but once you get past that and get apt properly configured, +installing and setting up new software is a joke. It took me about +20 seconds to install Apache (apt-get install apache), +then I realized I didn't have PHP4 installed (apt-get install +php4). Installing other stuff was about the same. +Tom walked me through a +dist-upgrade to unstable (more than a bit of a misnomer, I might add). +After years of the untold pain and suffering that is RPM, Windows, and +MacOS software installs, I am completely in awe of Debian Package +management. I'm sure Debian has it's quirks, but for the moment I'm +completely hooked. In fact, while I was writing this I just installed +ispell to double-check the spelling of a word. +

+ +The other interesting bit of news for the day is a little shell +script i wrote for accessing Google. +You can grab it here. + + -- cgit v1.2.3