about installing packages

[R S Gill]

In my view,

Aptitude has one thing going for it that neither Synaptic nor apt-get 
have. When you remove a package using Aptitude, it removes the package 
AND all of the unused dependencies of the package being removed. I think 
this is far more elegant and easy than say running debfoster to remove 
cruft that has built up over time.

Now if only we could have a nice Gnome/KDE GUI to Aptitude.......

Gill

Al Gordon wrote:

>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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