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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks Glorfindel. That's what I'll do then.
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I don't understand why installing from the Software Center is a "Yuck". The Software Center is a GUI front end to the install process, and fetches from the Ubuntu repositories. Ubuntu tries to keep them up to date.
I
have seen occasional complaints about the speed with which the repositories are updated, and the fact that the absolute latest code may not be in them, but it's not a surprise. Canonical offers paid support on Ubuntu, and wants to vet updates and make sure that it
can support them before adding them to the official repo. I have various PPAs added to the list Ubuntu will search for deb files because I run some bleeding edge versions that won't be in the official repositories, like Firefox nightlies.
If it's an official stable release, it's likely to be in the Ubuntu repositories, and that's where Software Center will get it. The only reason for a CLI install will be to install something
not in the repositories, but nothing you do should require it.
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Dennis