Re: aptitude vs. dselect
Vineet Kumar wrote:
> I'd heard that it's better to use "dselect update" than "apt-get update"
> because the former also updates dpkg's available database (which seems
> to me is pretty important).
>
> I've started using aptitude, but have gotten myself in the habit of
> running "deslect update", and wonder if this is still necessary? Given
> that the aptitude man page says that aptitude's update is "equivalent to
> apt-get update", I'm guessing that I should continue with "dselect
> update" as I've been doing.
>
> Can anyone with some more knowledge confirm or deny that? I did download
> the source, but (as the comment says) that particular section is a
> little hairy, and so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knows off-hand
> before getting myself tangled up in the inner workings of apt.
If you want dpkg -p, tasksel, and a few other bits to work, you should
keep on using dselect update. Note that you can just run an update in
aptitude, if you like the pretty display, and then run a (very quick)
dselect update at a later date. A cron job, perhaps.
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