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Re: aptitude vs. apt-get



Andreas Rippl wrote:
Ok, I see someone has to stand up for apt-get here, everybody else seems
to go for aptitude...
Having used aptitude only shortly after a long time of dselect (as
that's what was thrown at you upon fresh install and maybe still is),
I am not _too_ knowledeable with aptitude. However, I can say that I
love to have my command line for system stuff. Now aptitude still
qualifies with its ncurses(?) interface as I can run it without X.

It is possible to use aptitude on the command line, and that's indeed te way I use it almost all the time.

But in the spirit of simple building blocks used to create more
complicated actions a

deborphan | xargs apt-get -y remove

deborphan | xargs aptitude -y remove

works too :) It's just that you don't really need deborphan if all of your packages are installed with aptitude.

--
"Codito ergo sum"
Roel Schroeven



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