Re: [BLUG] Apt-get vs Aptitude

I installed Fink on OS X before it had any apt-ability. dselect was it, and it was not fun (almost made me wish for RPM).

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:

The big thing is:

apt-get is depricated. It isn't recommended anymore.

aptitude functions nearly identically with near-the-same command line
parameters.

In the future, apt-get may well disappear, so you can get used to it not
being there now.

apt-get is ancient, dating back to the dawn of the APT system. It
doesn't do a number of things as well as aptitude (which is actually
configurable when it comes to handling Suggested/Recommended packages).


I'm old enough to remember the days when all we had was 'dselect'.
I think I'm one of the few, though.

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