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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