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Re: apt-get vs Aptitude



On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>  > Is it safe to recommend using aptitude in online documentation?
>
>  Yes, and it's what should be recommended generally.
>
>
>  > Is there a replacement for apt-cache policy samba in aptitude
>  > version?
>
>  Just use apt-cache policy samba; aptitude obeys that just as much as
>  apt-get does.

What I ment here was that I can do
'apt-cache policy samba'
but I can't  do:
'aptitude policy samba'
there is 'aptitude show samba' but that has way more information?


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