On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 16:11, Anthony Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> [email protected]: >> > >> > Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better, >> > dpkg directly? >> >> Never use dpkg directly if you don't have to. Apt-get and aptitude are >> both good frontends with similar capabilities. Which one you use is >> mostly a question of personal preference. Only when doing distribution >> upgrades (like from lenny to squeeze) you should read the release notes >> and use the tool that it suggests. >> > > I'd vote for wajig myself.
me too ;-) It's got quite a lot of functionality, some of it nifty, EG "wajig --backup upgrade" actually saves the packages to be upgraded locally, in case something breaks, you cal revert. run "wajig commands" and see for yourself run "wajig help install" for a summary of what INSTALL command does, and available options Note that I'm here talking about the wajig version in Sid; one in Squeeze is quite outdated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
