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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.

-- 
Brian.


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