Micha Feigin writes: > In terms of history first came dpkg, next dselect, then apt-get and then > aptitude. Both apt-get and aptitude work with dpkg behind the scenes. > synaptic (I think that there is also a kde version) is just a glorified > GUI based aptitude AFAIK. Aptitude, Apt-get, and Synaptic are all front-ends to Apt (which in turn uses Dpkg for the actual package management). -- John Hasler