apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Ralf Mardorf]

Off-topic:

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:08:56 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>Aptitude is a Debian thing. The Ubuntu tool of choice, AFAIK, is apt.
>Not apt-get, just apt.

IMO
"Still apt-get should be used and in the near future apt, but aptitude
should never be used" -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall?action=diff&rev2=35&rev1=34

The reason for this is, that at least Precise doesn't
provide /usr/bin/apt and it's still a supported release,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/amd64/apt/filelist .

Since apt-get also segfaults for the OP, I suspect that most likely apt
will segfault, too.

I don't know how feature-rich apt for Trusty is, so I tend to be
careful with per se recommending apt.

Regards,
Ralf