[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 07 Jun 2010 09:31:42 Stephen Garton wrote:
> 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
> > --
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> 
> 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 :-)

I tend to use aptitude on the command line when apt-get says that it can't 
perform an upgrade for some reason. This is usually because it needs to 
install something else at the same time.

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