[ubuntu-za] apt-get upgrade explanation

[Charl Wentzel]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:26 +0200, Jonathan Hitchcock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Charl
> Wentzel<charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
> > Interesting... At the risk of exposing myself as an idiot, I'll admit
> > that I've used Aptitude a few times and got lost in the interface
> > several times, not knowing exactly how to do what I want or how to move
> > through package menus.  It is not exactly the most user-friendly
> > interface I've seen.  For that reason I still prefer apt-get.
> 
> If you run aptitude standalone, you get a strange curses menu
> interface where you can... do stuff...
> However:
> It is really ridiculously confusing and esoteric, as you say. Using it
> is not what we are recommending.
> We are simply saying that whenever you use apt-get, just type
> 'aptitude' instead of 'apt-get'.  So, "aptitude install somepackage",
> will install it for you - there's nothing confusing about that, and it
> does things a bit more smartly than apt-get does.

Aah!  Thanks for clearing that up.  I thought I was alone in my dislike
of that interface.