Re: [BLUG] Apt-get vs Aptitude

As I recall, aptitidue will make more assumptions than apt-get. Meaning that aptitude will install "suggested" and "recommended" updates, whereas apt-get will only install one or the other (and I can't remember which because I use aptitude almost all of the time.

There is also something about aptitude removing no-longer needed dependencies, which is nice IMO.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Sidarth Dasari <Sidster802@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok im sorry if this has been asked repeatedly in the past, but I just
wanted to get a simple explanation of the differences between these
two package managers. Ive done done some googling myself and I've come
across two basic answers. One is that they are just about the same and
it doesn't matter which one to use. The other answer was that aptitude
does a better job removing packages.
Are there any other differences between these two? And if Aptitude is
better at removing packages why don't more people use it?
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