Comments on: Ubuntu 11.10 – Understanding sudo apt-get install …

By: admin

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:56:08 +0000

In reply to Ashish. Thank you and you're welcome.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:31:04 +0000

Hi, thank you so much for giving this detailed and easy description about the command ‘sudo apt-get’ here.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:48:49 +0000

In reply to Samantha. You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. It's not really that difficult, but ... if you don't know it, then you don't know it. You might also consider using man pages to get more information. A man page is Unix's / Linux's equivalent of a help file. Often times, the help can be a little obscure, but it is better than nothing, sometimes it is very good. At the command line, just type in: man apt-get to get the documentation on the command apt-get. You can then try out man sudo to get more info on the sudo command. Finally, if you are not interested in all the documentation, you can often follow the command with --help to get a brief synopsis of the command and options. At the command line, type in: apt-get --help to get some help on the command apt-get. More commands support -h, which gives a much terser help summary than --help.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:03:40 +0000

My first tentative step in using the terminal – and it’s a success! Thank you so much.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:49:09 +0000

In reply to Lasal Uduwara. You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

By: Lasal Uduwara

Lasal Uduwara — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:56:59 +0000

Thnks it really helped me a lot!………