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Bob,<br>
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The flexibility of Linux often leads to numerous ways of achieving
an end result. Below are my thoughts on repos. Others may disagree
with me.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/07/16 22:31, Bob wrote:<br>
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Yes Ray I stuffed that up, MATE is the GUI<br>
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So many choices, but Mate is also my desktop of choice. I could
never get used to Gnome having the task bar at the top.<br>
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So what you are saying is, when I go looking for Ham Radio stuff
to download I have to make sure I get it from the Mint repository.<br>
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It's not set in concrete, but the safest way to get and install
software is to get it from your distribution's repository for the
particular release you have installed. <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:5777B420.3070104@gmail.com" type="cite"> Would
my package manager or software manage ensure I get stuff from the
right repository? <br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5777B420.3070104@gmail.com" type="cite"> What
about when I use ~$ apt-get install xyz? How will I know if I
have the right repository?<br>
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When a distro is installed the installation process includes the
"right" (safe) repositories for that distro and, the list is stored
in /etc/apt/sources.list (for Debian based systems). Package
managers like dselect, aptitude, synaptic and apt-get all refer to
/etc/apt/sources.list. You can add repositories from other sources
but there is no guarantee you won't run into dependency issues.
Another distro might modify a library, for example, and give it a
different name. When that happens, your distro looks for the name it
knows, and because it can't find it, spits a dependency error. I'm
not saying it 'will' happen that way, only that it can.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5777B420.3070104@gmail.com" type="cite"> So
Linux Mint is a distribution on its own and there is no guarantee
that something which runs on Ubuntu will run on Mint? <br>
I've just been lucky so far.<br>
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It depends on how much Mint has modified the Ubuntu packages, if at
all in any particular case. If package A is available from Ubuntu
there's a very good chance it's also available in Mint, and in that
case it's preferable to get it from the Mint repo. In my experience
the advantage that Mint offered over Ubuntu was the speed with which
the former fixed software issues, but I don't know if that's still
the case because I've long moved away from Mint and have gone back
to pure Debian, using their Testing branch repos. <br>
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My preference list would be ...<br>
1. use the repo for your distro<br>
2. use a third party repo but be aware there might be issues.<br>
3. install from a third-party .deb file (if one exists; and there
might be issues)<br>
4. compile the software from sources, which is not as scary as it
might at first appear to be but it might spit errors. <br>
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However, for xastir, for example, for which a package is available,
I always compile from the source code. It used to be that the
packaged version was years out of date, but that is no longer the
case, and I'm set in my ways!<br>
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Linux is certainly more interesting than Winblows. Good exercise
for the brain.<br>
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The only time I reply on Windows these days is for Photoshop,
because GIMP (on Linux) isn't quite there yet. My laptop is dual
boot Windows/Linux but my desktop computer is Linux only. Linux is
certainly a steep learning curve but it's worth the journey.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><small>On 02/07/16 16:18, vk2tv
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</small>I'm aware of the 32bit issue and have only been
downloading 32bit stuff.<br>
I wish there was an easy way to go to 64bit but I don't think
there is much of a speed advantage for the stuff I do. Its never
been an issue.<br>
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You'd have to install a 64 bit version from scratch and then you
could use both 32 and 64 bit libraries<br>
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Ray vk2tv<br>
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Thanks Ray, regards Bob vk2byf<font face="Times New Roman, Times,
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">If you're running
32 bit Linux Mint on a 64 bit processor you can only run 32
bit debs, so mismatch there can't be an issue.<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Cheers,</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ray vk2tv<br>
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