One other small thing: If ever something breaks, 'apt-get install -f' usually has the minimal brains to recover. 'aptitude install -f' seems to be too smart for its own good in such cases (asking to remove some packages and such).
I also prefer the default of 'apt-cache search' to that of 'aptitude search' (searches package names). Though the latter displays results in a more useful way. The command-line version os also too verbose. How long does it take you to understand thew result here: # aptitude install apt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done and here: # apt-get install apt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done apt is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded. And one other small difference. The last command was actually the output of 'LANG=C apt-get install apt' . If I stick with the default system language in apt it would show up as: # apt-get install apt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done apt is already the newest version. 0 משודרגים, 0 מותקנים חדשים, 0 יוסרו ו-381 לא ישודרגו. Which is nicer in mlterm. But then again, a potential problem in most other terminals. Aptitude does not seem to be translated. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
