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 -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
