Manual for apt

[Tony Arnold]

Petter,

On Sat, 2016-09-03 at 12:35 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 09:55:09 +0000
> Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ralf,
> > 
> > Is there some advantage to apt over apt-get or my preference
> > aptitude? Just curious about your interest in apt.
> AIUI, apt is intended as a frontend to the whole dpkg/APT subsystem,
> as
> it does not only cover functionality from apt-get, but also things
> from
> apt-cache and dpkg.

It looks interesting, but I though aptitude did most of this anyway. I
know aptitude also has a horrible curses interface which I never use!

> In #ubuntu on Freenode, users are encouraged[1] to use apt instead of
> apt-get, as it is a single tool that (at least at some point) will do
> everything they need.
> 
> It is also shorter to type and looks pretty :)

Less typing is always welcome. Prettyness I can take or leave, I don't
care that much!

> [1] apt-get and friends should be used for scripts instead of apt, as
> the apt interface is not (yet) stable.

Yes, I see apt even gives you a warning to this effect if you pipe its
output through more say.

Regards,
Tony.
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