I have recently installed Etch and was wondering if it is a bad idea to
use Automatix2. I know some will say its easy to install most applications
through the CLI, but if I use Automatix2 for pure ease of effort will I
regret it later?

Regards,

Wad

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* Wad wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> I have recently installed Etch and was wondering if it is a bad idea to
> use Automatix2. I know some will say its easy to install most applications
> through the CLI, but if I use Automatix2 for pure ease of effort will I
> regret it later?

Just as easy to use Synaptic IME, but Automatix puts everything in one
place. Automatix just replaces your sources temporarily and is
essentially a GUI to apt so not really much of a difference.

YMMV
--
David
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the
other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley

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On 2007-05-19, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:
> * Wad wrote in alt.os.linux.debian: 
>
> Just as easy to use Synaptic IME, but Automatix puts everything in
> one place. Automatix just replaces your sources temporarily and is
> essentially a GUI to apt so not really much of a difference.

Of course it's much more than a simple package installer. See here
http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/in...ware_and_Tweaks
for some details and here
[url]http://ubuntuos.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/feisty-codecs-installer-vs-automatix/[/ur
l]
for the ideas behind it (at least in the Ubuntu context, where I
think it started off).

And on the other hand my experience with it did reveal a few bugs!
(Which they may have sorted by now).

--
Chris Game

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it?"   -- Albert Einstein

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On May 19, 10:00 pm, Chris Game <chrisg...@example.net> wrote:
> On 2007-05-19, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
>
> Of course it's much more than a simple package installer. See herehttp://w
ww.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_and_Tweaks
> for some details and herehttp://ubuntuos.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/feisty-c
odecs-installer-vs-a...
> for the ideas behind it (at least in the Ubuntu context, where I
> think it started off).

Well, I use http://www.debian-media.org/ for lots of the stuff that
Automatix give to Ubuntu.  Works great for me.

Just put this in /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/etch-debian-multimedia.list
and read the text for instructions.
Then you have multimedia codecs and other stuff in synaptics like
ordinary debian packages.
=================== cut ====================
 ########################################
##########
# Extra multimedia packages Debian
# from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
#
##############################
# Need to add key for debian-multimedia.org
# Install package from Debian/Etch
#  aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring
# OR
# Add key for a repository <key number> from error messages when
# you run "aptitude update"
#  gpg --recv-keys <key number>
#  gpg --export | sudo apt-key add -
#
# Please look up a mirror in http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

deb     http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
#
# eof
=================== cut ====================

Not that Automatix is bad, what I know. Have only tried it on an
Ubuntu machine.  I guess it gave me ptoblems when I tried update
Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04...

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