The DUB package manager

Dicebot m.strashun at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 01:18:40 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 08:34:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-02-19 08:19, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> You can. Debian is weird though because it is done via dpkg, 
>> not apt-get.
>> In Arch it is as simple to "pacman -U package-file" vs "pacman 
>> -S
>> name-in-repo".
>
> Isn't apt-get built on top of dpkg or something like that?

It is. AFAIK apt-get is dpkg + getting packages via repo sources. 
But last time I have been searching, found no way to proxy dpkg 
call to install local package via apt-get which felt a bit weird. 
Probably my failure at searching though.


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