[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Stephen Garton]

On 7 June 2010 08:51, Neil Perry <nperry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> I've just been pointed out, that for Maverick they have removed aptitude
> being install by default. I don't want to start another button debate.
> But how many of you using aptitude rather then apt-get?
> I've used aptitude since I started using ubuntu, seeing as I thought apt-get
> wasn't maintained any more.
> Neil Perry
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>

I tend to use aptitude rather than apt-get on the command line (i.e.
sudo aptitude install foo rather than sudo apt-get install foo). I'm
not sure why, do be honest. I *think* it's because way back in the day
a mailing list post pointed out that aptitude worked better at
resolving dependancy problems (or at least appeared to be more
straightforward) and at the time I had deb and repositories and
allsorts scattered all over. I don't tend to do this nowadays, so it's
not really an issue.

Plus, I could always sudo apt-get install aptitude :-)

Steve Garton
http://blog.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk