The only gotcha I know of is that settings in ~/.aptitude/config will override your apt.conf.
Normally that wouldn't be a problem, though, since most people edit their apt.conf file and not their ~/.aptitude/config. On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 19:44 -0500, Vern Ceder wrote: > 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! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. Sign up today. > > <http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fwlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
