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Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude



Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:

> Sometime before, I read on this list that it is unwise to mix apt-get
> and aptitude. By mix, I mean using apt-get one time and aptitude
> another time. The reason given was that both of them use different
> databases. Is this true for synaptic and aptitude as well? Can I use
> synaptic sometimes and aptitude some other times? Any ideas?

I think the problem with apt-get and aptitude was
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123 which seems to
be fixed in etch.

About synaptic vs. aptitude I don't know, maybe you will have to try it
out ;)

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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