I've always just used apt-get from the commandline and synaptic in the GUI.
But if you like using aptitude, cool. Why don't you just search with
'aptitude search'? I gather that learning the options might be a bit
complicated, but it could be worth it.
As to removing everything, including config files, the docs say that
'purge' will do it, and since aptitude (and apt-get and synaptic) is
just an front end for dpkg, I would be surprised if it didn't. Do you
have some concrete cases where it failed to?
Cheers,
Vern
Nicholas Smith wrote:
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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