I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well.
Are there any pitfalls when using Aptitude to manage a system? For example, running
aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
instead of
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Is Aptitude being pushed as the replacement for dselect, or perhaps as an eventual replacement for apt-get?
Thanks for any thoughts.
-- me.kirchhoff
So I installed aptitude. It appears that
apt-get dist-upgrade
and
aptitude dist-upgrade
do exactly the same thing. Even look exactly alike...
To avoid shooting myself (in the foot) I do a mondoarchive before so I can restore easily...
Hugo.
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