On 08/19/2007 02:25 PM, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved
people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its
curses interface.
Are you saying I should NOT use aptitude as a replacement for
apt-get, like this: "aptitude install new-package" ?
I've been using aptitude like this all the time ever since I installed etch
with no problems whatsoever.
What's the problem of doing so and not using it's user interface?
Manon.
I almost exclusively use aptitude under Sarge. Both the curses and
command line interfaces work perfectly, and I've never had or heard of a
horror story involving aptitude*.
And aptitude is clearly the most advanced interface to the packaging system.
I only use apt-get when I need to install from the source (which
aptitude cannot do).
I'm also curious about what problems other people are having with aptitude.
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* However, I never do anything at the command line that hasn't been
verified as safe. I always use the curses interface to find out what is
going to happen before I enter a command at the command line.
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