On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:50:25AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > [BTW, this should be an FAQ: Package managers - what's the difference > between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?] > > > Yes :-) Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself. Each tool > > has merits. Question is not "which is better" but "which one suits > > you". > > In a earlier post to this list, I wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:31:19 -0500 > From: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic > > instead of aptitude. > > > > RLH > > Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.
This caught me to read recent release notes. > http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > 4.4 Upgrading packages > > The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases > is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer > decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly. This assertion to aptitude happened for sarge release note. (fron CVS) > 4.4.2 Upgrading aptitude > > Upgrade tests have shown that etch's version of aptitude is better at > solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get > or sarge's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first [...] This was new to sarge release note too. (from CVS) Interesting. But many of the command line use example for aptitude are too simplistic rewrite of apt-cache command, I presume. Especially, "hold". It is usually better to do these from full screen console mode, for me. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
