[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Tony Arnold]

Neil,

On 07/06/10 08:51, Neil Perry wrote:

> 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. 

That's irritating. On the command line I always use aptitude. I started
doing so because I thought I had seen somewhere that debian was adopting
aptitude as their standard command line package management tool.

I guess I'll just add aptitude to do the list of packages I install by
default.

Regards,
Tony.

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