[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Johnathon Tinsley]

On 07/06/10 14:30, Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Tony Arnold<tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>  [2010-06-07 11:18]:
>> 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.
> ** end quote [Tony Arnold]
>
> Yes, I've always used aptitude as well, believing it to be the replacement for
> apt-get. I also quite like that it has search built in rather than having to
> install apt-find as well. I have to say that the only time I use the GUI tools,
> even on Ubuntu desktop, is when it pops up with updates. If I want a new
> package I use aptitude, and haven't found any of the attempts at GUI tools to
> be anywhere near as easy to use. Maybe that's because I'm a techy, and
> increasingly Ubuntu seems to be aimed at non-techies. Server side I use
> aptitude all the time since you never need a GUI on a server - obvious to
> anyone except Microsoft ;)
>

You don't need to install apt-find to search, just use 'apt-cache 
search', which comes with apt-get by default :)

Johnathon

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