I have an old question that's answer is likely a personal opinion more than one
correct answer.
Most guides use apt-get, many people have told me to use aptitude instead, and
synaptic package manager is very simple to use.
This is the stupid way that I install things. I search for it (the package
name) in synaptic package manager, install it in the terminal with aptitude
(because I like they way it handles recommends and such), and I remove it with
aptitude. However, I think even when I use aptitude purge... it still leaves
residual config files, so I remove them with synaptic.
I am thinking it would be easiest to use Synaptic always... since I search with
it and remove residual configs with it anyways.
Is there a way to remove residual configs with aptitude? Is there really a down
side to apt-get or Synaptic? They all do about the same things now don't they?
I know that aptitude used to be the better front-end, but I hear that, that is
not the case now.
-Nick Smith
PS- I'm still a learner in the Linux game... and I haven't had a whole lot of
discussion in the mailing list due to my lack of knowledge, so I figured I'd
throw in an easy one... haha!
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