Questions about Ubuntu
Mark Komarinski
mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Sep 18 10:05:04 EDT 2008
On 09/18/2008 09:48 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
> Does Ubuntu support ATI/AMD video cards out of the box? 3D drivers
> included?
Not having used ATI cards in a long time, I can't answer either. A good
guess would tell me that they're at least supported in 2D mode and the
proprietary drivers for 3D are probably included as well.
>
> Can one use apt with Ubuntu?
Yes, that's what you use instead of yum/yast.
> Does that get one out of most of dependency hell? I thought apt was
> similar (I believe many say even better) to yum and yast.
I have a few problems with apt (though it may be I don't know enough
about it and haven't found the right docs). Dependency hell usually
arrives when you try to install a .deb from Debian Stable (Etch) and it
has dependencies that can't be matched by Ubuntu. The package remains
half-installed and you have to remove it or use apt-get -f install to
allow apt to clear it for you the best it can. That usually works by
just removing the offending package. Until that's resolved, you can't
do anything: no updates, no installing new packages.
A prime example of this is gpsdrive, which has a .deb for Etch and used
to work on Gibbon, but doesn't work with Heron. I've tried a number of
times to get the right combination of packages to allow it to install
and I can't quite get it. I think the version for Sid requires newer
packages than I have, and I'm not smart enough to get the source package
to compile without something blowing up.
-Mark
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