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book99: Dependencies. They are many and frequent.
And they are handled by the package manager, which automatically installs them when needed.

(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)

Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
Post edited May 30, 2019 by dtgreene
How do I audit Mint packages without installing or running the distro?
Post edited May 30, 2019 by clarry
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book99: Dependencies. They are many and frequent.
As dtgreene pointed out, those are handled by the package manager. When installing software outside the repositories you may need to install the dependencies yourself through the package manager though - however there are only a relatively small number of packages that are likely to be required. On a fresh install I only need to install my common dependencies meta-package to get all of the dependencies necessary to run my GOG games & most other software I have.
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clarry: How do I audit Mint packages without installing or running the distro?
http://packages.linuxmint.com/
Post edited May 30, 2019 by adamhm
Is that a joke?
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Post edited May 30, 2019 by clarry
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clarry: Is that a joke?
Mint is based on Ubuntu and shares its repositories for many packages: https://packages.ubuntu.com/ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Post edited May 30, 2019 by adamhm
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clarry: Is that a joke?
I think Mint only maintains a very small subset of packages

For everything 'remotely useful' it uses the Ubuntu repos
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book99: Dependencies. They are many and frequent.
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dtgreene: And they are handled by the package manager, which automatically installs them when needed.

(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)

Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/[url=http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku]http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku[/url]

Here's an archive of the article
Post edited May 30, 2019 by satoru
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clarry: Is that a joke?
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satoru: I think Mint only maintains a very small subset of packages

For everything 'remotely useful' it uses the Ubuntu repos
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dtgreene: And they are handled by the package manager, which automatically installs them when needed.

(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)

Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
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satoru: [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku]https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku[/url]/

Here's an archive of the article
Thank you (even though the link isn't clickable in your post. Forum bug?).
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satoru: I think Mint only maintains a very small subset of packages

For everything 'remotely useful' it uses the Ubuntu repos

[url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku]https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku[/url]/

Here's an archive of the article
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dtgreene: Thank you (even though the link isn't clickable in your post. Forum bug?).
Yeah I think the forum is trying very hard to interpret the 'http' as a url rather than being part of the link itself from archive.org. Its even worse because its like a 'nested' http inside the url so the forum is probably even more conrused than normal :P
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dtgreene: Thank you (even though the link isn't clickable in your post. Forum bug?).
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satoru: Yeah I think the forum is trying very hard to interpret the 'http' as a url rather than being part of the link itself from archive.org. Its even worse because its like a 'nested' http inside the url so the forum is probably even more conrused than normal :P
It might be due to the tilde: test

edit: looks like a bit of both
Post edited May 30, 2019 by adamhm
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book99: Dependencies. They are many and frequent.
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dtgreene: And they are handled by the package manager, which automatically installs them when needed.

(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)

Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
For me, I don't have any problem. I use Linux Mint 19. Actually I playing to Dishonored with Steam Play. It work well.

Regards,
Adrian | CloudDesktopOnline

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Post edited May 31, 2019 by Ashleee
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satoru: web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/[url=http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku]http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku[/url]

Here's an archive of the article
Using quotes around the URL address after the equal sign tends to help, though the button for making a link doesn't include them.  However, in this case the colon (use %3a) and the tilde (use %7e) are the issue.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku

Replacing those works, and in this case the quotes didn't make difference either way.  For convenience, here's what it looks like (but note that the forum software seeks out text that looks like a link and converts it, and has done that with this, too):

"https://web.archive.org/web/20160326062818/http%3a//algebraicthunk.net/%7edburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku"

I got the replacement values from the ASCII man page.  In emacs, try typing the ESC key, then x, then man. It will prompt for the name of a manual page, then just type ascii.  That'll show the listing of ASCII values for each key on the US keyboard. Use the hexadecimal values.
Post edited May 31, 2019 by thomq