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:Aptitude vs apt-get
Aptitude vs apt-get
Aug 14, 2007, 09 :45 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (11813 reads)

(Other stories by Aaron Toponce)

"Being an Ubuntu/Debian user (yes, I use and advocate both), I have fallen in love with the Advanced Packaging Tool, also known as apt. Before Ubuntu, I played in the world of RPM hell, with distros such as Red Hat itself, Mandrake (as it was called back then), and even SuSE. I would find some piece of software, try to install it, only to find that it would choke, saying that it relied on some certain dependencies. I would install the dependencies, only to find conflicting versions with newer software. Hell indeed. So when I discovered the Debian way of installing software, I wondered why no one had mentioned it to me before. It was heaven. This is the way to software, I thought.

"So, as any new user to the world of apt learns, apt-get is the way to install software in your system..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Assuming one were to read the documentat ...   Actually   
Cabal
Aug 14, 2007, 12:28:07
 
Sorry.I know that Aptitude is the recomm ...   Re: Actually   
Charles Hixson
Aug 14, 2007, 16:41:03
 
I use both RPM based systems and DEB bas ...   I like apt, but there are problems with it as well   
techdog
Aug 14, 2007, 19:49:37
 
If any of you have noticed, that is 16 d ...   Is aptitude really that much better?   
Frank
Aug 14, 2007, 20:14:38
 
I was wondering why some rocket scientis ...   apt update   
Spanky
Aug 14, 2007, 22:10:30
 
Or are they both just front-ends for dpk ...   Isn't Aptitude just a front-end for apt-get   
Bernard Swiss
Aug 15, 2007, 06:08:59
 
Use aptitude when you may want to remove ...   update on apt   
Spanky
Oct 13, 2007, 19:41:00
 
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