Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:53:43AM +0000, 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
>
you could put:
alias apt-get='echo "Use aptitude instead" '
in /etc/profile.
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David Jardine
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