about installing packages

Al Gordon runlevel7 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 14:19:27 UTC 2005


On 8/2/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > example:
> > apt-cache search xfig
> > sudo apt-get install xfig
> 
> Or better:
> 
> aptitude search xfig
> sudo aptitude install xfig
> 
> aptitude eliminates a lot of clutter - taking over the functions of both
> apt-get and apt-cache, and using the same syntax to purge a package as to
> remove it (I always hated "apt-get --purge remove ...").

I'm not overly familiar with aptitude, having used apt-* in the past. 
Looks like I get to learn something new today.  Thanks, Derek.

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