Thread: What is a repository? and other noobness
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2008-02-14 , 11:55
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#6
In addition to jussik's list I would add
  • When an application depends on other applications or libraries to be pre-installed (or it won't work), the repository system + application manager will automatically resolve the dependencies and download and install the required additional items. To do this by hand (as you would, if you just downloaded from a normal old-fashioned ftp site) is a lot more work and can be tricky.
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