Michael Martinell schrieb: > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM >>>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>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.
apt-get is not "deprecated" and will not go away AFAIK. The OP was referring to the officially recommended way to upgrade between distributions; see the sarge release notes on upgrading. But I would recommend you to give aptitude another chance. It took me a while to get used to it, but now I wouldn't want to miss it again. cheers, Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
