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Re: aptitude vs. apt-get



On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:45:14PM +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> 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
> 

Ah, didn't know that. Might come in handy one day. I have just read up on
the man page and it seems like aptitude really handles many tasks from
the command line (quick glance only, I will have a closer look later).

> 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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