Joey Hess said...
> Adam Hardy wrote:
> > Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the
> > currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages
> > were installed by apt or by aptitude?
>
> "apt/dpkg/aptitude use different databases" is a frequent statete
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> By the way, is there a problem of abandoning dependency on APT? There
> have been some problems blamed on this relationship -- "That must be a
> bug in APT!"; "No, I'm sure it's an aptitude problem".
Yes. aptitude is a frontend to apt.
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Adam Hardy wrote:
> Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the
> currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages
> were installed by apt or by aptitude?
"apt/dpkg/aptitude use different databases" is a frequent statetement on
this mailing list. It'
Andrew M.A. Cater on 11/12/05 10:13, wrote:
A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to
Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from
apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which
featured a wonderful (albeit imperfect, as some bug r
On 2005-12-11T10:13:34+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Aptitude is great as a gui front end
text-based user interface (tui)
> - but you can take "apt-get install foo" as a single command from my
> cold dead fingers :)
aptitude provides similar command line syntax.
/Allan
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hello,
> A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to
> Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from
> apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which
> featured a w
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