Re: about apt and aptitude update

2021-01-26 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 04:37:39PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude > > I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they > are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just > one update on either tool

about apt and aptitude update

2021-01-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I use both apt and cmdline aptitude. Mostly cmdline aptitude I'm curios if when I call `apt update' or `aptitude update', if they are refreshing the same database files... wondering if I could do just one update on either tool and that would do both.

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

2016-12-22 Thread M.A. Perry
Thanks for your replies. The answers are clear and helpful. Again thanks. M.A. Perry --

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

2016-12-21 Thread Joe
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:54:21 + Joe wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:49:21 +0100 > "M.A. Perry" wrote: > > > Dear People, > > A simple question for which I have so far found no > > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > > apt-get a

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

2016-12-21 Thread Joe
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:49:21 +0100 "M.A. Perry" wrote: > Dear People, > A simple question for which I have so far found no > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. > > We are curren

Re: Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

2016-12-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:49:21PM +0100, M.A. Perry wrote: > Dear People, > A simple question for which I have so far found no > answer in the Debian documentation. My computer > is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses > apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. > > We are cur

Which type of FTP transfer for apt and aptitude?

2016-12-21 Thread M.A. Perry
Dear People, A simple question for which I have so far found no answer in the Debian documentation. My computer is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses apt-get and aptitude for ugrades and/or installations. We are currently writing a set of ip_tables rules for a default baseline -A OUTPUT

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-22 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2015 13:10:47 Javi Barroso wrote: >> I think that using multiarch is a problem for aptitude. > > I've not had a problem using multiarch with aptitude on Wheezy. I hope that > those are not famous last words. A

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 November 2015 13:10:47 Javi Barroso wrote: > I think that using multiarch is a problem for aptitude. I've not had a problem using multiarch with aptitude on Wheezy. I hope that those are not famous last words. Lisi

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-21 Thread Javi Barroso
Hello, El 20 de noviembre de 2015 18:03:03 CET, Pavel Volkov escribió: >What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages: apt- > >utilities or aptitude? >I heard aptitude development was stalled and it offered no real >advantages >(not counting interactive mode). It was stalle

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2015 at 19:29:09 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Pavel Volkov [2015-11-20 20:03:03+03] wrote: > > > What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages: > > apt- utilities or aptitude? I heard aptitude development was stalled > > and it offered no real advantages (not co

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-20 Thread Joe
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:03:03 +0300 Pavel Volkov wrote: > What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages: > apt- utilities or aptitude? > I heard aptitude development was stalled and it offered no real > advantages (not counting interactive mode). > Aptitude has more intellige

Re: apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Pavel Volkov [2015-11-20 20:03:03+03] wrote: > What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages: > apt- utilities or aptitude? I heard aptitude development was stalled > and it offered no real advantages (not counting interactive mode). There's no "the" way for normal use. Releas

apt-* and aptitude

2015-11-20 Thread Pavel Volkov
What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages: apt- utilities or aptitude? I heard aptitude development was stalled and it offered no real advantages (not counting interactive mode).