:: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
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Skribent: Simon Walter
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Emne: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
On 04/16/2016 06:22 PM, KatolaZ wrote:
> 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...
>


Same here. I tried to use the recommended aptitude a couple times and
just got lost.