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Nikolay Batrakov
9,604 Pointslinuxbrew or apt?
For I-dont-know-why reason :) I installed linuxbrew to my Ubuntu VM (maybe I just used to use it). Now, when I listened this lesson, I've released that apt is ALSO a package manager (wow, what a blast!). So, what do you think - shall I in general stick with apt only or it is worth doing to instal brew and use it?
3 Answers
Nate Meyer
3,887 PointsIf you're on Ubuntu, use APT for sure. There's little benefit (and a lot of potential confusion) to using a non-standard package manager.
Nikolay Batrakov
9,604 PointsThank you Nate!
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIf you are using another computer, like one at work or a web server you can expect either apt or yum to be on it. Apt is used on all debian-based systems of which Ubuntu is one. Yum is used on Red Hat based systems ( which include RHEL, Fedora and CentOS).
Muthuri Mutuma
6,019 PointsI would recommend you use apt though...its more standard since you will definately find it on almost all debian machines that you will ever work with just like James said
Muthuri Mutuma
6,019 PointsMuthuri Mutuma
6,019 PointsCheck this out.
LinuxBrew is 'for people living on the edge' i.e. want the latest software repositories while apt containes mostly older but stable repositories but you can get the latest repos using ppas
All in all either is fine