Re: Package system totaly a complete mess
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon:
> >
> > I've lived for years using synaptic and I am no so used to aptitude - and I
> > don't want to make mistakes...
>
> In addition to the good advice regarding automatically installed
> packages that has already been given I have one question: why do you
> want to use aptitude? I used aptitude for a few years but switched back
> to apt-get after the Release Notes of a release recommended to use
> apt-get for distribution upgrades, not aptitude. I have a lot less
> trouble now.
Actually 'apt-get' is recommended for major upgrades as in distro
upgrades, but for day to day package mgmt, aptitude is still the
recommended tool.
FWIW I use both, aptitude has more options. Never used ncurses aptitude
though, can't stand it.
For someone just starting out with aptitude, I'd recommend they install
the aptitude-doc package relevant to their language.
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