gesundheit
😉
Listening to the Untitled Linux Show over on the TWiT.tv network, they mentioned APTUI, and I love it.
I cut my Linux teeth on SuSE Linux, coming from twelve years as a Novell NetWare administrator. YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) under SuSE was great. I particularly liked finding and installing new Perl modules using YaST – it took care of dependencies and everything. Just wonderful.1
Unfortunately, the OpenSuSE project doesn’t like YaST and is working to get rid of it. This is one of the reasons I’ve abandoned OpenSuSE.
I’m currently back on Debian. It is fine, but it is frustrating to add Perl modules. First, I have to find the name of the Perl module I want, because apt wants to know exactly the name of the file to install.
APTUI (a Text User Interface for APT) is everything I liked about yast sw-single
If I type DateTime into APTUI, it shows me all the Perl modules that I might want to use. Although I know it as DateTime::Format::ICal, apt wants to know that the file is named libdatetime-format-ical-perl. aptui simply lets me select the module (with a mouse or keyboard) and hit the i key to launch the install. This is great.
So thank you to the guys over at the Untitled Linux Show. This was a great command-line tip of the week. And gesundheit. 😉
- I suppose much of that is Zypper and RPMs, and not so much YaST, but the experience is what I liked. ↩︎