Aptitude Magic

[Antony Gelberg]

SteVe Cook wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 22:50 +1000, David Symons wrote:
> 
>>Note also that you have to have used aptitude for the install in order
>>for it to work its magic for the remove. 
> 
> 
> After a bit of messing around this appears to work.  So does apt-get
> appear to be the preferred method of installation.

I assume you mean aptitude.  I think aptitude is superior to apt-get and
as I said before, I have no idea why apt-get is recommended in docs etc.
 IME, update is broken when sources.list changes, so I use apt-get
update and aptitude for everything else that it supports (see the man page).