mixin apt and aptitude

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 2:18 AM robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
>
> I once did read, that one should not mix the usage of apt and aptitude to
> maintain a server.
>
> Is this (still) true?

One other comment that may be noteworthy... Apt is Debian's official
package manager. Aptitude is ncurses-based command line front end to
Apt.

It should not matter whether you use Apt, Aptitude or both. However,
in practice, I find Aptitude's safe-upgrade very useful is fixing
"held back" packages. Aptitude can usually get them installed even
when Apt+full-upgrade and fixes work cannot.

Also see https://wiki.debian.org/PackageManagementTools,
https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude, https://wiki.debian.org/AptCLI and
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/package-management .

Jeff