Common problems with Ubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

On 12 May 2010 08:45, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> UBUNTU does have a process where you can sync the packages installed on one
> computer with another. You do it by listing the status of all packages to a
> file, input the file to the package manager on the other computer and then
> tell it to install anything it now thinks should be installed and isn't. I
> think that is done via dpkg, so any debian based system will do the same
> thing.
>

I've never heard of that! Going through the manpage, it looks like you
might be referring to "get-selections". Is that it? If not, can you
give some more details? Thanks!


Back on topic, to answer the OP:
In contrast to some other distros, Ubuntu does not come with
development tools. You have to install them yourself. Once they are
installed, Ubuntu is just like any other Linux distro in regards to
development. In fact, you will notice that Ubuntu often has very
up-to-date packages available, and they are very easy to install with
tools such as build-dep.



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