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Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude



On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising 
> aptitude as a "better apt-get".   But I've also seen cautions about 
> mixing the two.

You might try searching the archives for articles confirming what I'm
saying;

You wouldn't necessarily mix the two, but the two can be installed on
the same machine -- Mine are. I don't use apt-get, and simply run
aptitude from the command line. It works much the same as the apt-get
command.

I've run command line aptitude for several years without any problem in
doing so. In fact, it was on this list that I read an e-mail by a
revered member of this list, (can't remember offhand whom it was) who
indicated that aptitude handled dependencies and management better than
apt-get can.


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Regards
Stephen
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