Activity for Peter Taylor
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| Comment | Post #283804 |
What software are you expecting to use the camera with? In my experience, most software that supports webcams has a preview mode of some kind, so you may not need to install anything extra at all. (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282896 |
The entire section on Ubuntu seems to be copy-pasted from https://fossbytes.com/best-linux-distro-beginners/ without attribution. I haven't dug around to see whether the rest of this answer is original or copied from other sources, but you should either rewrite copied content or clearly mark it a... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281852 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Is this a robust way to distinguish explicitly installed packages from those pulled in as dependencies? `apt-mark` aims to do this: the commands `apt-mark showmanual` and `apt-mark showauto` should show you respectively the packages which you explicitly installed and the ones which were added as dependencies. There are caveats. 1. There seems to be a common complaint that it shows too many pa... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |