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Help with command line syntax, please

IanGraham

Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:21:31 am

I'm trying to install Audacious, and noted two command lines to do so from an online source. Either they're not correct, or I'm not spacing it right. Corrected versions will be much appreciated.
This is what I'm doing and getting:

ian@ThinkPad-T500:~$ sudo apt -get update
E: Command line option 'g' [from -get] is not understood in combination with the other options.
ian@ThinkPad-T500:~$
ian@ThinkPad-T500:~$ sudo apt -get install audacious
E: Command line option 'g' [from -get] is not understood in combination with the other options.
ian@ThinkPad-T500:~$

Thanks
Ian G
Wales UK

Swarfendor437

Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:14:11 pm

You've got spaces where there shouldn't be any:

Code:
sudo apt-get update


;) :D

zorinantwerp

Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:55:11 pm

Hi

you can use a PPA . have a look :)
Code:
https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/ubuntu/webupd8


take a backup first
+++

IanGraham

Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:22:30 pm

Thank you for the parsing/punctuation. Yes, that works.

PPA ? Hmmmmm

My system spontaneously offers me updates every few days, and to date I've accepted them? Is that unwise ?
If I were being more choosy, I might want to take only security updates. Basically my set-up is working well, and therefore incremental improvements of a general sort are not really a priority. But this machine is very much my window on the world. I had originally assumed (maybe wrongly) that in moving to Linux I had got away from the 'malicious' risks associated with Windows and especially old Windows.
Ian G

zorinantwerp

Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:48:40 pm

Hi

a word of developers on the Zorin blog on PPA
https://zorinos.com/help/install-apps/

:)

IanGraham

Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:26:29 pm

OK. Thanks

Swarfendor437

Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:04:04 pm

Also to ensure you get correct updates, change to 'Main Server' - now might be a good time to download the Unofficial Manual that I scribed. ;) :D

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13614

IanGraham

Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:12:59 am

Thanks, again