[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Paul Tansom]

** Johnathon Tinsley <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk> [2010-06-07 15:06]:
> 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 :)
** end quote [Johnathon Tinsley]

I knew apt-find wasn't the correct command, but given that it's a long time
since I used anything other than aptitude I went with it for the email! Thanks
for the reminder :)

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