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Ubuntu: Up and Running
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Ubuntu: Up and Running

by Robin Nixon
April 2010
Beginner
464 pages
12h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Aptitude Silliness

There’s also a bit of fun to be had with the apt-get and aptitude commands. Open a Terminal window and enter all the following commands, one at a time, viewing the response you get to each:

apt-get moo
aptitude help
aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
aptitude -vvvv moo
aptitude -vvvvv moo
aptitude -vvvvvv moo

I won’t reveal what happens here—you can find out for yourself!

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