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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

zypper predates apt (which isn't the same as apt-get)

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Well yeah but my point was really just that it’s a goofy name. Not instead of, more like as opposed to.

P.S. interesting factoid that I didn’t know. Thanks. But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper? Because that’s sufficient.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper?

No, apt-get is the oldest. It was one utility out of a set of utilities. I always found it super dumb that you hat to use a completely different tool to search for a package (apt-cache, I think).

zypper was released in 2006.

The all in one apt command was introduced by Debian 8 in 2015.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I find it weird when I see instructions that still reference apt-get.