Apt-get versus aptitude versus synaptic

[Lukas Kolbe]

Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2004, 15:49 -0400 schrieb Seth Williamson:
> In Ubuntu, is it a bad idea to use more than one of these programs to
> update and upgrade and install?  I first started using apt-get, then I
> went to aptitude.  Then and only then did I have a vague memory of
> somebody on the Libranet list saying it was a bad idea to use more than
> one of these--supposedly you were supposed to pick one and stick with
> it.

It should be no problem at all mixing those three programs - if you
don't run them at the same time (though they would be complaining if you
try it). 

Aptitude and Synaptic are, as far as I know, frontends for apt-get.

-- 
Lukas