Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 oct 12, 08:05:46, Kelly Clowers wrote: Oh well. I mean obviously people are free to use what they want, I just cannot understand why anyone would use apt-* when there is aptitude. And 90% of the time I use interactive mode, which doesn't exist *at all* in apt-*, and when I do use

aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and apt-cache, ... root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-get root@tal:~# apt-cache policy aptitude aptitude: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.6.8.1-2

Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and apt-cache, ... root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get apt: /usr/bin/apt-get

Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Lisi
On Friday 19 October 2012 16:05:46 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and apt-cache, ...

Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)

2012-10-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 19 October 2012 16:05:46 Kelly Clowers wrote: I swear I saw it on the Aptitude page on the Debian wiki, but I guess it was somewhere else, because I just looked and it is not. I swear I _saw_ it - past tense!