On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote:
Oh gosh. I'm just trying to figure out apt and now I'm hearing
about aptitude in this post and a prior post. Is aptitude really
that much better? I tried the Debian site for more information, but
it seems that was also affected by this last weekend's events.
Well, I sure like aptitude. One of the benefits is at the beginning,
when you're staring at that steep learning curve, you can run aptitude
in interactive mode (aptitude with no command-line options).
That fires up a fairly easy-to-use interface that lets you browse and
search the package listing visually.
It has other advantages, too... better handling of suggests and
recommends... keeps a log of what it does...
It's a cool toy.
Cheers!