apt-get vs aptitude

Rajinder Yadav devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 18 10:55:57 UTC 2009


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:20:02AM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> What is the difference between using apt-get and aptitude to install  
>> packages?
>>
>> I'm using aptitude because if I recall correctly it manages the package  
>> dependencies better, where as apt-get will not. I recall having to use  
>> synaptic to fix a problem once and that when I stopped using apt-get.
> 
> aptitude is newer and more advanced and does have a better system to
> deal with dependancies.  Debian in fact recommends the use of aptitude
> these days as the main command line tool.  I still use apt-get, probably
> because I am used to typing that and I find aptitude asks too many
> questions.

I forced myself to learn to type aptitude, I started off using apt-get, 
but I posted earlier, one day something broke, a require dependency did 
not get installed and ever since then I've been using aptitude with no 
issues.

> 
> aptitude is certainly also better than synaptic at dealing with
> dependancies.
> 


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