Re: aptitude vs synaptic
I`ll give you a help with aptitude, it's very great!
Em Sex, 2005-02-04 às 09:11 +0100, Lucio Crusca escreveu:
> In particular, I find its "search in name and
> description" feature very useful (maybe also aptitude has that feature and
> I've never managed to find where).
Just press / and the search dialog will popup.
> One thing dselect has and others do not have (or, again, I've not found
> where), is the listing of "suggested" packages. It's not clear to me if the
> packages automatically selected as dependencies by aptitude and synaptic
> are only the strict dependencies, or include the "recommended" ones, or
> include also the "suggested" ones.
Go to Options->Dependency handling, then take a look here, it will show
you what you want.
Synaptic and aptitude are very great, but I really don't enjoy dselect.
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