On 11/10/05, David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude data files? We just > had a problem where aptitude decided to [remove] programs that were installed > by apt-get immediately prior. This is on Sarge stable.
Aptitude tries to keep track of what you installed by hand and what was installed to satisfy a dependency. In the latter case, it tries to clean up packages that it thinks are no longer needed. This can cause a headache when you migrate from apt-get to aptitude. I recently switched, and expected to have to go through the hassle of marking everything I wanted to keep. What I found, however, was that having already marked things with debfoster, aptitude already knew what I wanted to keep specifically and what was a dependency. You might find debfoster useful for this, as well. You should be able to run it after apt-getting a package, and then not get complaints from aptitude. Still, you should probably just choose one or the other. Aptitude can be run from the command line almost identically to apt-get. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
