Thibaut Paumard wrote:
[...] aptitude is not a command-line tool. Just launch it from the Debian menu and you'll see a perfectly edible curses-based package manager. Now the name in the menu hardly helps, but that's another story. [ ... ]
Well, we are both right. Aptitude is an Ncurses application as you say. It can also be used from the commandline - see man (8) aptitude. The Debian manual recommends using aptitude commands instead of apt-get commands. I was referring to the _commandline_ use of either aptitude or apt-get.
Regards, Chris.