For what it's worth, much of the apt vs aptitude is preference and
opinion. However, aptitude does bit better of a job resolving dependencies
and preventing them from breaking your system. I personally have never been
a fan of aptitude, so I stick to the standard apt-get
update/upgrade/dist-upgrade. Has this ever bitten me? Absolutely. Has it
ever put me in a situation I couldn't recover from? Never. So, YMMV, and
it will absolutely vary, but you just need to figure out what you're
comfortable with and how much work you're willing to put into your
systems. There is no right or wrong way. There is just getting it done,
or not done. At the end of the day, if you got it done, whatever "it" may
be, then you're probably on the right track. And of course, if you ever
get into a pinch, you always have the community to fall back on.

Linux O'Beardly
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:05 PM, dev <devuan.2@???> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I was wondering if anyone could offer some clarity on how best to apply
> patches on Debian derived systems? There are so many options across apt-get
> and aptitude... I cannot make sense of them all:
>
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get safe-upgrade
> aptitude upgrade
> aptitude safe-upgrade
> aptitude full-upgrade
>
> The man pages tell about the different options, but I don't know if
> removing packages to resolve dependencies is a good thing or not.
>
> Then I found the link below[1] explaining that 'aptitude' is the tool to
> use on Debian while other information[2] suggests that 'apt-get' is the
> tool to use so I'm confused and hoping some of you generous folks could
> provide some insight here or at least admit you are as confused as I am.
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html
> [2]
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade
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