It is really pretty trivial to add aptitude back if you want it - 'apt-
get install aptitude' is not hard for those who can handle aptitude in
the first place. Also, the mention of the server installation shows
that whoever said it hadn't actually checked the maverick server
installation - it's
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** Description changed:
Binary package hint: aptitude
It has come to our attention that the developers want remove aptitude
from the base installation again. Most of us that run a testing version
use aptitude safe-upgrade, in order to not break the
I use aptitude ALOT, especially to uninstall things.
And from my experince it's MUCH better to solve dependices than apt-get,
and at fixing broken packages.
Also Debians, documenation prefers aptitude over apt-get, and I belive
they have a good reasor for this.
+1 for keeping aptitude.
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I find aptitude absolute essential.
+1 for keeping aptitude
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cariboo907 wrote I find aptitude with it's options is a very useful tool
during testing, removing it will make the job a lot harder.
Then just install it, it's not like it's been removed from the repo's
The question is not whether aptitude has value (certainly does), but
whether it needs to be
It should remain included in the base install, since aptitude has the
value when things go wrong. If your system gets broken beyond just
fixing a configuration file, when you loose your comfy graphical
X-server, ... then aptitude's value is needed. And you (as a user for
who fixing a broken system
Stephan, there are DVD installers available. And the 700MB CD-size
should never be knocked, as there are still quite a number of us who
still depend on it.
In the meantime, there is a discussion about this change in the
development ML, you can read it here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives
This isn't a bug in aptitude but in the ubuntu meta packages where the
change happened.
** Package changed: aptitude (Ubuntu) = ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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I'll be the bad guy here, and say that I +1 to aptitude's removal.
Most, if not all things you can do in aptitude can be done in apt-get,
apt-cache and dpkg, and at a quicker execution speed too.
Someone mentioned show and search. Why not use the below two instead?
apt-cache show pkg
apt-cache
Am I the only one that finds apt-cache search too limited? Aptitude has
search patterns
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html
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I also find aptitude more useful than apt-get in many cases and would
not want to see it omitted.
If 2 MB of space on the image is a concern, there are other ways to make
room: remove some wallpapers and other non-functional stuff on the Live-
CD. Also, at this point in time, one should start to
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50081925/Dependencies.txt
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This is a tool that is not only handy in testing, there are times when
it is just the best thing for the job and those are times when it may be
real hard to get it due to malfunctions in other package tools.
We have several partitioners, sfdisk is I would say little used. It
would be easy to
I use Aptitude and all its functions, including show, search, etc.
Please include it back in the tool set. There's a lot of features that
Aptitude brings that just can't be replaced!
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aptitude is the only package manager I use, 99% of the time. Please keep
it in the base installation. Thank you.
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Updated description with references to the decision.
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: aptitude
It has come to our attention that the developers want remove aptitude
from the base installation again. Most of us that run a testing version
use aptitude safe-upgrade, in order
I use aptitude (the ncurses interface) extensively when creating a
minimal install from a command-line version. I especially like the no
recommends option, which allows me to pick and choose components when
building up a system. apt-get requires me to know the exact name of a
package ahead of
Please reconsider the decision to remove aptitude from the base
install. CLI tools are important for the desktop, as well as a server,
and we (Ubuntu desktop users) have few enough of them installed by
default as it is.
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