On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Dmitrii Kashin <free...@freehck.ru> wrote: > Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de> writes: >> >> What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or >> aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better >> dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? >> Does it matter? What about using both? > > I should notice that you cannot compare apt-get and aptitude. But you > can do it for aptitude and APT utilities. > > I find aptitude somtimes inadequate, and therefore dangerous in some > cases. I met situations when aptitude completly broke functioning of > APT. APT utilities in their turn are simpler, and they are more > preferred to manage packages. > > But although aptitude can break APT, APT could not break aptitude's > working, so you always can use it in order to use its searching > abilities. I do so.
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