debian dependecy hell

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, 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.

Ok, thanks, I will try it out.

Peter
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