[ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Mon Jun 7 18:44:49 BST 2010


Paul,

On 07/06/10 17:46, Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** 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 :)

apt-find can be used to find which package a particular file is part of 
which you cannot do with apt-cache or aptitude.

Both apt-cache and aptitude will let you search for a package. They at 
least search package names, they may also search package descriptions, 
but I'm not sure about that.

Regards,
Tony.
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