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Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers



On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:

[BTW, this should be an FAQ:  Package managers - what's the difference
between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?]

> Yes :-)  Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself.  Each tool
> has merits.  Question is not "which is better" but "which one suits
> you".

In a earlier post to this list, I wrote:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:31:19 -0500
From: Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
References: <[🔎] 20061117182026.GA523@cromwell.tmiaf>

On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default.  Use synaptic
> instead of aptitude.
>
> RLH

Au contraire...  The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.

http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
4.4 Upgrading packages

The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases
is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer
decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly.

4.4.2 Upgrading aptitude

Upgrade tests have shown that etch's version of aptitude is better at
solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get
or sarge's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first [...]


Regards,
Ralph



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