Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?
--- On Sun, 12/20/09, S. Fishpaste <SDA@Deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid> wrote:
> From: S. Fishpaste <SDA@Deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid>
> Subject: Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 3:30 PM
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600,
> sys49152@hushmail.com
> in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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?
>
> I use aptitude
I second that.
Aptitude.
/tony
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