debian dependecy hell

[Stephen Allen]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:15:17PM -0400 or thereabouts, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> I suggest using the ncurses aptitude instead of the command line apt-get
> for package management.  Aptitude is great for visualizing dependency
> relationships and unlike apt-get it keeps track of which packages are
> have been selected for installation vs. which are installed to satisfy a
> dependency.  
> 
> Actually there are lots of reasons to use it instead of apt-get or
> dselect but no need to get into details: once you start you'll never go
> back.

I agree aptitude is the 'way to go' as opposed to apt-get. Aptitude can be run
from the command line much like apt-get, without using the ncurses interface (if
one wishes).

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