Aptitude included in Maverick by default

[GatoLoko]

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On 02/07/10 18:05, Luke L wrote:
> I've never seen an argument about apt-get and aptitude that
> conclusively listed the benefits of one over the other. Every time a
> +1 is mentioned for X, someone else says "No no no, that USED to be
> but Y has that now".

Aptitude does a better work managing dependencies and is the preferred
command line package manager in debian, as stated in
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#pkgmgmt,
and since we are talking about managing "Debian Packages", they may know
what they are talking about.


> Can aptitude duplicate this functionality with ease? Does it do all
> things in any sort of superior way?

Most things are done the same way, but some are done a little beter
(dependency management, aptitude doing things from apt-get + apt-cache)
and there are some apt-get doesn't do.

apt-get install        <-- aptitude install
apt-get remove         <-- aptitude remove
apt-get remove --purge <-- aptitude purge
apt-get update         <-- aptitude update
apt-get upgrade        <-- aptitude safe-upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade   <-- aptitude full-upgrade
apt-get autoremove     <-- unnecesary, automatically done on
                           remove/purge
apt-get clean          <-- aptitude clean
apt-get autoclean      <-- aptitude autoclean
apt-cache show         <-- aptitude show
apt-cache search       <-- aptitude search

dpkg -l | grep something  <-- This remains the same

There are some "complex" cases where aptitude makes a diference. When
you want to purge the residual config from all uninstalled packages, you
need to do something like this:

dpkg --get-selections | grep "[[:space:]]deinstall$" | awk '{print $1}'
| sudo xargs aptitude purge --remove

or

dpkg --get-selections | grep "[[:space:]]deinstall$" | awk '{print $1}'
| sudo xargs dpkg -P

or

aptitude purge ~c



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