Greg Madden wrote:
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian.
apt-get is deprecated.
aptitude is the tool to be used.
Bye,
Ratti
An aside:
I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a
long* ways to go before it is very useful to me. It reminds me of
dselect - clumsy and not very efficient. I could have a package
found and installed using apt-get before I even began to guess which
subheading it is hiding under in aptitude. To me aptitude is just an
unwanted step-child of dselect - which I didn't like either.
That is just my 2 cents worth of course. Everybody else in the
world is free to disagree.
If you know the name of a package apt-get has its merits, but then the
'search' function of dselect (forward-slash key) or aptitude works
quite well also, if you know the package name.
Aptitude has a very powerful search feature. You can search both
package name and description as well as over 10 other conditions (which
they call terms). I must say that I had to read the entire aptitude
manual inorder to apprieciate what it could do.
Of course I like and
use dselect :-)
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