I'm not sure about updating safely, though i have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade once or twice and haven't had any problems so far.
however, synaptic and aptitude are both just using apt, so as far as I know there is no difference except for how you go about it. personally, i find using the apt commands from a terminal are the fastest and easiest ways for me to go about installing software. i've written little shell scripts to quickly do 'apt-cache search' and 'apt-cache show' and 'sudo apt-get install'. I'm pretty sure aptitude and synaptic are just fancier ways of doing what apt does. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Josh Lawrence <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I installed the latest puredyne on my laptop last night, and I was > please to see that no update manager popped up (yay!). still, I want > to get the latest packages/bugfixes, and I know that updating can > sometimes be a bad thing, so: > > is it ok to 'aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade' periodically? > is there a better way to do it? > > also... > > is synaptic the preferred way of installing applications, or aptitude > from the command line? is there a difference? > > I know I'm splitting hairs here, I just want to make sure. > > thanks! > > Josh > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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