Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?
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I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other
comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names.
apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't
handle dependencies as well, leaving me to install software by hand
with 'dpkg -i'. Sometimes, it can't even find the package at all.
Now it wants me to 'apt-get autoremove' telling me that "The
following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:" and then provides a long list containing predominately
packages that I use on a daily basis. It looks like apt-get is
daring me to hose my system.
I just want to find something better. I have nothing against dpkg
other than that I have to resolve the dependency issues myself. I
still run apt-get update to make sure security patches are in
place; I do wish that it was the tool I remembered it being years
ago.
Thanks for the tips!
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:24:36 -0600 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:13:22 -0800
>John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600
>> sys49152@hushmail.com dijo:
>
>...
>
>> >For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful
>> >software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have
>been
>> >finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so.
>I am
>> >beginning to suspect that apt-get is becoming aged and
>neglected.
>> >Is there a newer/more modern package tool that has been getting
>> >more development attention that I should be using instead?
>
>...
>
>> But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be
>using aptitude.
>> I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new
>stuff. After a
>> graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I'll
>have to delete
>> some of the old stuff. Bah.
>
>"Note that aptitude is the preferred program for package
>management
>from console both for package installations and package or system
>upgrades."
>
>http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html#s-
>aptitude
>
>Celejar
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