Ubuntu Recommended Package Manager (was Re: gnome-keyring: upgrade/downgrade/upgrade/...)

[Avi Greenbury]

Mauro wrote:
> On 14 November 2013 01:00, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co
> <mailto:lists at avi.co>> wrote:
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>     Kenneth Jacker wrote:
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>             mg> Aptitude is not the recommended package manager for Ubuntu.
>
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> No?
> Why aptitude is not recommended?
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>

It's not really that strong. For the 10.10 release there was a push to 
save some space on the install CD. This involved picking one of the pair 
of command-line apt frontends (apt-get or aptitude) to remain, and 
removing the other.

Apt-get won and stayed, while aptitude was removed from the default install.

If you want to use it there's no reason to not simply install it 
(apt-get install aptitude); it's in the main repos and hence supported.

-- 
Avi