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I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
features, like the ability to do a --with-suggests, quite useful. It
seems like Aptitude does a better job of
M. Kirchhoff wrote:
I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
features, like the ability to do a --with-suggests, quite useful. It
seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well.
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:12:28 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
So I installed aptitude.
It appears that
apt-get dist-upgrade
and
aptitude dist-upgrade
do exactly the same thing. Even look exactly alike...
No, they don't do exactly the same thing, or at least they didn't in
sarge in
I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
features, like the ability to do a --with-suggests, quite useful. It
seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well.
Are there any
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get
for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the
features, like the ability to do a --with-suggests, quite useful. It
seems like Aptitude
.
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me.kirchhoff
I have not yet found a downside to aptitude, but I found a huge upside
back in August.
I regularly did:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade#(never upgrade)
One day I was astonished to see that apt-get wanted to remove half my
system
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