>     You guys all talk of aptitude as a CLI. But it is essentially a  
> CUI (Curses User Interface) supposed to give you diverse views of  
> the status of your packages and of what you are doing. I could never  
> make any sense of this CUI, although I know people who do. I've  
> completely given up on this and use only apt-get and synaptic.  
> Synaptic is a GUI, very straightforward to use. I think aptitude  
> could be as easy  but it has been developped by geeks for their own  
> use without care for the general admin and without a sensible  
> documentation.