Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

[Pete Ley <peteley11235@gmail.com>]

"Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it> writes:

> berenger.morel@neutralite.org writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Le 06.02.2014 11:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
>  > > On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote:
>  > >> I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in
>  > >> /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/.
>  > >
>  > > Can one do <apt update>?  I have never heard of it, which could 
>  > > easily
>  > > be my ignorance, but Google can't find it either.  If it exists, I
>  > > would be interested in what it is used for.
>  > >
>  > > Lisi
>  > 
>  > Command-not-found also does not know about it, so my guess is that "apt 
>  > update" just does not exists. I tend to trust command-not-found :)
>
> dpkg -L apt shows no evidence of an executable named apt.

I feel he might have meant the differences between apt-get and
_aptitude_, but got a little confused in the terminology. 

My two cent interpretation.

Pete