Aptitude--any users!

[James Freer]

But you haven't actually answered the question. I gather that Debian
still use aptitude as the default package management tool.

james

On 2 May 2011 20:58, Jonathan M. Polom <s0nic0nslaught at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu actually stopped shipping it by default starting with 10.10. I
> was shocked. Thank god I still know how to use apt-get install, right?
> Aptitude is where it's at. As far as I'm aware there isn't a
> comparable tool for RPM/yum based distros. Whenever I'm using
> Fedora/RHEL at work I miss aptitude a lot.
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, James Freer <jessejazza at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> That said, I always use aptitude, not apt-get. Upgrades and dependency
>>> hell are handled much better.
>>
>>> Dotan Cohen
>>
>> Thanks for your reply i've just been experimenting this evening. True
>> apt-get has purge but when one uses aptitude it gives more info as
>> well as you say handles upgrades and dependency better.
>>
>> But why is aptitude not more popular? - is it just because people
>> don't bother to read into it. It does seem to be used more on the
>> kubuntu forum i noticed but everywhere else i find folk use apt-get. I
>> find its just got everything there.
>>
>> james
>>
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