On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote:Yes, and, per my message from a few days ago, it seems to be safer. I don't use the UI much, just the command line, but I have always used it since apt-get wanted to remove over 90 packages in August.
Oh gosh. I'm just trying to figure out apt and now I'm hearing
about aptitude in this post and a prior post. Is aptitude really
that much better? I tried the Debian site for more information, but
it seems that was also affected by this last weekend's events.
Well, I sure like aptitude. One of the benefits is at the beginning, when you're staring at that steep learning curve, you can run aptitude in interactive mode (aptitude with no command-line options). That fires up a fairly easy-to-use interface that lets you browse and search the package listing visually.
It has other advantages, too... better handling of suggests and recommends... keeps a log of what it does... It's a cool toy.
Cheers!
-- ....................paul
"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one: they promised to take our land, and they took it."
- Chief Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) of the Oglala Sioux
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