On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! > > > > > > > > > AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian. > > > apt-get is deprecated. > > > aptitude is the tool to be used. > > > > > > Bye, > > > Ratti > > An aside: > > I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a > long* ways to go before it is very useful to me. It reminds me of > dselect - clumsy and not very efficient. I could have a package > found and installed using apt-get before I even began to guess which > subheading it is hiding under in aptitude. To me aptitude is just an > unwanted step-child of dselect - which I didn't like either. > > That is just my 2 cents worth of course. Everybody else in the > world is free to disagree.
If you know the name of a package apt-get has its merits, but then the 'search' function of dselect (forward-slash key) or aptitude works quite well also, if you know the package name. Of course I like and use dselect :-) -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
