Manual for apt

[Colin Law]

On 3 September 2016 at 13:12, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Sa, 2016-09-03 at 11:32 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 3 September 2016 at 11:29, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > hi,
>> > On Sa, 2016-09-03 at 09:55 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Ralf,
>> > >
>> > > Is there some advantage to apt over apt-get or my preference
>> > > aptitude? Just curious about your interest in apt.
>> > >
>> > well, it is a completely different tool, uses its own package db
>> > and
>> > does the dependency resolution slightly different ...
>>
>> Are those statements true for apt vs apt-get?
>>
>
> nope. they are just differemt UIs for the same tool and db.
> (i think not all options and switches have been ported from apt-get to
> apt yet though)

That's what I thought, thanks.  I think your previous reply could have
been mis-interpreted as it asked about the advantage of apt over both
apt-get and aptitude.

Colin