Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

[Sturla Holm Hansen <sturla@hitconsult.no>]

Andy Hawkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now that aptitude is the recommended package manager for Debian Stable, is
> there any way of removing apt-get?
>
> I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my
> nightly automatic aptitude update && aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran
> overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed packages (mysql 4.1) and
> replace them with the older ones.
>
> I had to manually run aptitude remove <old mysql packages> before it could
> continue.
>
> Is there any way of removing apt-get so that I can't run it by accident
> again in future?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
>  
I'm still using apt-get so I wouldn't know what aptitude does in the 
background, but if aptitude doesn't need apt-get you could solve the 
problem easily by running :
chmod -x /usr/bin/apt-get
Then you can't run it and get an error if you try....as you would get if 
it wasn't there anymore...

Sturla