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Re: How do I check the package I just installed



On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > After purge, reboot it came back to before.
> 
> Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing
> packages.  The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between
> automatically installed packages and packages the user requested to
> install.  Thus when you install a package "XXX" that depends on other
> packages, all needed packages will be installed.  When you later remove
> the package "XXX", all the other packages "XXX" depends on that were
> installed automatically will also be removed.

Aptitude was recommended over apt-get for this reason back in Lenny, but
as of 6.0 Squeeze, apt-get can also tracks automatically installed 
packages.  I couldn't find any conclusive snippets to quote from 
official documentation, but I think aptitude is now only recommended for 
interactive usage, while APT is preferred for scripts and command-line 
usage.

Cheers,
Jimmy


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