Re: Aptitude package manager "package"
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 19:44:19 +0000, OECT T wrote:
> I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude
> package was not installed by default.
The correct conclusion to draw from this is that aptitude does not have
a Priority: higher than optional in stretch.
> I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package
> is not marked with the Debian icon indicating that the package is not
> supported.
This conclusion has been comprehensively dealt with by Tomas.
> I would appreciate any comments about it.
>
> What other command line packages are recommended instead of Aptitude?
>
> Is Aptitude or will be soon a deprecated package ? (Debian Reference
> still contains a good deal of information about Aptitude)
No.
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Brian.
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