aptitude command line - why?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:53:54AM +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> One thing that I considered a fact after this studying was that Synaptic
> is basically a front end for apt-get and gets it's features from there.  I
> read many how-tos, a lot of forum posts and even subscribed to Synaptic
> mailing list and never got an impression of Synaptic being something else
> than a well done front end for apt-get.

APT is a management system for software packages.  apt-get is a simple
command-line front-end to this system.  Synaptic is a graphical front-end to
the same system.  Synaptic and apt-get are both front-ends; Synaptic is not
a front-end to apt-get.

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 - mdz