[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Neil Perry]

That is what I don't understand either, typically I thought if debian would
be adopting that apt-get will be getting phased out. Unless Ubuntu devlopers
maintain apt-get.

Neil Perry


On 7 June 2010 11:19, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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