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 removeworks 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