aptitude command line - why?

[Pizbit]

Then there's dpkg which is what I thought apt-get used.


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:01:38 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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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