Michael M. Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 19:02 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:33:00PM -0000, BartlebyScrivener wrote:So exercising an abundance of caution I usually stick with synaptic. Maybe on my next install I'll look into Aptitude.What do you do when X dies or needs changing?I don't understand the question. Aptitude doesn't need X. It's an ncurses/command-line app. Usually, I run it (curses interface) from a VT when I'm logged out of X.
I think they meant synaptic, not aptitude. The point is exactly that, that you don't need X for aptitude, but you do for synaptic.
Martin