Ubuntu

[Tiberius]

And if you'd followed the conversation you'd realize that what I said DID make sense because apt (which obviously includes apt-get and the rest of the associated suite of commands) CAN be used alone as an installation mechanism.

Kyu

Irrelevant, and you are just being argumentative now.

Apt is a package managing tool. It has several interfaces, apt-get and Synaptic are both examples of these interfaces.

When you say "apt" rather than "apt-get" I (as a user of APT myself) assume you are talking about the package manager, especially since you list a load of package managers afterwards. For instance, you included Portage in the list, yet Portage is the package manager, and "emerge" is the command that you use to install stuff.

I simply assumed you meant the package manager, as any Linux user would.