On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:25:20PM -0500, dev wrote:
>
> On 04/15/2016 03:36 PM, Linux O'Beardly wrote:
> >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.
>
> Yes, That's what I've always read so I have always used aptitude but
> in this instance I have packages that will not upgrade via aptitude.
> I mention this case specifically as the Debian docs[1] say "aptitude
> is the recommended package manager for Debian".
>

I might be a bit old-fashioned, but I don't understand anything
besides dpkg, dselect, apt-get, and apt-cache. And I have never felt
the need for anything else...

HND

KatolaZ

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