But why "Install-Package", "Add-Package" and "Update-Package" - it's not like you can install, add or update anything else with this tool.
Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
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Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#102There will probably be a GUI for it, called an "App store".
Windows Vista had a command-line package manager, although it was rather lame. It was a kludge to feed canned answers to installer prompts.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748979%28v=ws.1...
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#103> While Windows and Mac users have to run graphical installers — you know, where you hit Next a few times and try to avoid installing bundled crapware — Linux users can just open up a command line and type sudo apt-get install vlc.
Right. As if VLC on windows comes with crapware.
As if apt-get [0] never asked cryptic messages [1].
[0] or yaourt or any other package manager
[1] and it's more about the package than the package manager
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#104Welcome Windows10! What next, maybe a network oriented display manager to be able to open a window on another pc, phone, tablet, xbox? ;-)
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good job at not reading the article! Had you read it, you would've learned that the commands work like this: Find-Package Firefox Install-Package Firefox I admit it's not as easy as on e.g. Debian: sudo apt-get remove iceweasel sudo echo deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import >>/etc/apt/sources.list sudo gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3EE67F3D0FF405B2 sudo gpg --export 3EE67F3D0FF405B2 > 3EE67F3D0FF…
What is this... I don't even...
It's adding a debian-compatible repo (from Linux Mint Debian Edition) in order to replace Iceweasel (firefox without the branding) with Firefox (firefox with the branding). Firefox's branding is incompatible with Debian's licensing requirements, and they amicably split the branding years ago as a result.
The example was intentionally selected to be as obfuscatory as possible, in order to be a troll. Most of those commands are about adding a repository rather than installing software, anyway (and the four lines involving gpg are usually done in a single line)
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#106Sorry, penguin lovers — if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken. If you’ve ever ventured into the dark and mysterious land of Linutopia, where Ubutologists and Debianites reign, ... Wow what a snarky article! I guess Extremetech does not like Linux at all...
Nice. Windows which claims to be the default desktop OS copies a basic feature from the Linux "non-desktops" which is a command line package manager :-)
Another irony is that software installation has been much easier and safer on prominent Linux systems like Debian, Suse and Ubuntu than on Windows for the last couple of years.
Final irony is that I (and others) actually use Linux as a desktop system for more than twenty years. Since Windows 8 Linux was even the better desktop :-)
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I take it you're not familiar with Windows Server...
It's been nearly a decade since I managed any Windows servers. I'm more than willing to believe there are features of modern Windows systems that I don't know about. Perhaps you can fill me in on what I've been missing...I assume you're implying there is some equivalent to yum or apt-get on Windows that allows easily updating system and third-party packages from the command line without human intervention? And, do mo…
I haven't admin'd windows boxes for a few years, but apparently PowerShell has finally given windows admins a proper commandline that they can actually work with - no longer are GUI tools required to admin a windows box.
Interestingly, the last time I looked at Windows servers (2011?) there was a whitepaper from MicroSoft lionising windows headless servers - without the GUI, there was 70% fewer security bugs, giving a smaller attack surface.
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#108> and who knows, that might just trigger some kind of revolution in Windows app management Free trials of un-tar? Installing apps that require subscriptions to the cloud? Dev libraries that require enterprise support packages? Good package management on Linux is owed largely to the tireless voices such as Stallman who understand the core issues here. Yes, tying together install scripts and maintaining repositories re…
Don't be so negative. Microsoft announced a partnership with Docker. And there is a lot of free software on Windows as well.
You don't get it.
Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
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The APIs may be annoying (HWND, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, DWORD_PTR dwcsprcadrswtfbbq, NULL, ...) but that backwards compatibility you're suggesting they do away with is pretty much the best thing about Windows. I got so fucking sick of the desktop Linux people constantly breaking everything on foppery and whim that I went back to Windows 7+mingw, and while Stallman would be ashamed of me, I have to say that it's…
Being built on Linux as GP suggested doesn't mean its just Linux -- presumably you'd implementing Windows APIs on top of Linux. Think WINE, but without the disadvantage of having to be done by third parties. Though a more likely way, were Microsoft to want to bridge that gap, would be to have a solid first-party POSIX environment on top of Windows, rather than the other way around.
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Re: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...someone says that the next year will be a year of Linux. Who says that unironically in 2014, though?
Given that more android devices are sold than windows, iOS and OS X combined, I would say it is a mere observation of fact that the past few years every year has been the year of linux. Linux on the desktop on the other hand...
Android actually _is_ a Linux desktop system. It is a GUI on top of a Java based virtual machine on top of a Linux kernel.
This Linux desktop has actually overthrown both Windows and iOS. The market share was 85% in Q2 2014 according to:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/07/31/android-reached-reco...
Android just uses another type of input than classical keyboards and mice. But you can also use keyboards and mice here. There are x86 implementations of Android, and you can root into the Linux system, and you can use Linux features within your Android device. Terminals for instance:
http://news.dice.com/2014/03/31/run-linux-terminal-android/
Of course, Windows 10 advocates don't want to let people know these facts :-)