Tag: apt

And my Hyper-V Raspi error

And my Hyper-V Raspi error

Posted on by David

Scary apt messageSeems to be with Visual Studio Code. I said yesterday that it had got into a funny state. Well I created a new VM and installed the Raspberry Pi OS that runs in a VM and after it updated tried installing VS Code on it.

It would have had the same problem had I let it. The problem is it when you install VS Code, it has some unmet dependencies and in fixing them it wants to remove 8 essential packages and this breaks apt which then gets in a funny state.

No one wants to see this scary message! So I think I may have to use the Code.headmelted.com version on Hyper-V for a while and see if this gets resolved with the next update of VS Code. Ah the jots of software development…

 

On apt vs apt-get

On apt vs apt-get

Posted on by David
Linux
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This is the command you use to update your system, fetch and install software. Some people use apt-get, others plain apt and the two appear interchangeable but they are NOT the same. As it’s making a change to the system, you almost always have to run it via sudo.

They are different?

Well yes. Try these.

apt --help

apt-get --help

Those give different help messages. And as for these:

apt check

apt-get check

It’s curious that apt-get check works, but apt check gives an invalid operation! I’m not sure why they are so similar yet subtly different. If anyone knows, drop me a line.

Having created this post, I subsequently did find out the differences- explained on this page. The simplified version is the apt is a simpler subset and also shows a progress bar when you do sudo apt upgrade. Try sudo apt-get upgrade next time to see it without the progress bar!