Ubuntu installers?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:12 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 13:34 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Not at all.  "Format" describes the kinds of packages that you feed into
> > the system - that is, .debs.  apt and dpkg are certainly different
> > *tools* that operate at somewhat different levels of abstraction, but
> > they handle the same *format* of packages.
>
> apt is a good idea, it does replace apt-get, dpkg, gdebi and probably a
> few other commands for a lot of taskes, it's a step in the right
> direction, to provide one basic tool that does almost everything

And don't forget aptitude.

aptitude stands out because of safe-upgrade. aptitude often works when
apt's dist-upgrade fails.

Jeff